Uładzimir Arłou

A. Arlou (Belarusian: Уладзімір Аляксеевіч Арлоў, Russian: Владимир Алексеевич Орлов, romanized: Vladimir Aljakseevich Orlov; born 25 August 1953 in Polotsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Belarusian historian, writer, politician, and poet.

Uladzimier Arloŭ published his debut poems in Blakitny Lichtar (Blue Lantern) student underground self-publish magazine in Navapolack in 1973.

In the 1970s and the 1980s Uladzimier Arloŭ and Vinceś Mudroŭ took part in copying and distributing a number of Belarusian publications that were forbidden at the time, including the Russian-Belarusian (Kryvičian) Dictionary by Vaclaŭ Lastoŭski.

Uladzimier Arloŭ first won renown for his prose, including historical writings, and later on was also acclaimed as a remarkable essayist and poet.

Uladzimier Arloŭ’s writings have been translated into a number of languages, including English, German, Polish, Swedish, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, French, Romanian, Russian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovak, and Georgian.