Yanka Maur

Janka Maŭr (Belarusian: Я́нка Маўр; Latvian: Janka Maurs; Russian: Я́нка Мавр; Yanka Mavr; 11 May 1883 – 3 August 1971[1]) was a Soviet and Belarusian writer, translator and playwright.

Janka Maŭr was actually his pseudonym as his true name was Ivan Michajłavič Fiodaraŭ (Belarusian: Іва́н Міха́йлавіч Фёдараў).

He was born in Liepāja, Courland, Latvia but was raised in the Belarusian village of Lebianiški (now Lithuania).

He could teach again only in 1911, becoming a geography and history teacher in a private school in Minsk.

Besides writing, he also translated stories into Belarusian from many foreign authors, including Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Anton Chekhov, and Mark Twain, among others.