Aleksey Dudarev

Aleksey Dydarev is a Soviet and Belarusian playwright and screenwriter. Honored Art Worker of the Belorussian SSR. Dudarev was born in a peasant family. In 1968 he graduated from the Novopolotsk Vocational School of Oilmen. In 1976 he graduated from the theater department of the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute. He was an actor, assistant to the chief director for the literary part of the Belarusian Republican Theater for Young Spectators (1976-1979). In 1979-1983, Dudarev was a member of the scriptwriting and editorial board of the Belarusian television ('Telefilm', Minsk). Secretary of the Union of Theater Workers of the BSSR since 1987. Editor-in-Chief of the Mastatstva magazine since 1991. Since 1992, he became the chairman of the Belarusian Union of Theater Workers. Dudarev's works have been translated into Polish, Russian, Slovak, Turkmen, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Estonian, Lithuanian and other languages.