He was the author of the collections of prose The Insider (1958), The Milky Way (1960), A Moment Flashes (1965), The Wild Dove (1972), Day Early Fall (1974).
He was born into a peasant family in the village of Vorokomshchina (now in the Dzyatlava District, Grodno Region, Belarus).
He worked as a loader at the Novelnya railway station and at the same time studied at evening school.
For some time, he lived in Dzyarzhynsk (Koidanovo) in the Minsk Region, where his son Vladimir (writer Adam Hlobus) was born.
Graduated from the Higher Literary Courses at the Union of Soviet Writers in Moscow (1965).