Raisa Baravikova. Photo: Nasha Niva. CC BY-SA 4.0
Raisa Baravikova died on the night of May 26, 2026. This was reported by her relatives on social networks.
Raisa Baravikova was born in 1947 in the village of Peshki, Byaroza District, into a family of civil servants. She worked as a literary employee for the Bykhov district newspaper "Mayak Prydnyaprouya". She graduated from the artistic translation department of the Literary Institute in Moscow (1971). She worked as an editor at the "Belarusfilm" film studio (1971-1972). From 1972-1977 – correspondent for the newspaper "Litaratura i Mastatstva", from 1983-88 – literary consultant for the editorial board of the newspaper "Chyrvonaya Zmena".
From 1996-2000, she was deputy editor, and from 2000-2002, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Alesia". Editor-in-chief of the magazine "Maladost" (2002-2011). Employee of the newspaper "Litaratura i Mastatstva" (2011-2012).
Author of poetry collections "Ramankavy Berah" (Daisy Shore) (1974), "Slukhaiu Sertsa" (I Listen to My Heart) (1978), "Takoe Karotkae Leta" (Such a Short Summer) (1981), "Adhuknusia Holasam Zhaleiki" (I Will Respond with the Voice of a Reed-Pipe) (1984), "Kakhannie" (Love) (1987), "Pad Nebam Pershaha Spatkannya" (Under the Sky of the First Date) (1990), "Liusterka dlia Samotnai" (Mirror for the Lonely Woman) (1992).
Author of plays "Barbara Radzivil" (staged 1994), "Piatlia Chasu" (Time Loop) (1996).
She published a book of fairy tales and stories for children "Halenchyn "Ya", albo Planeta Tsikavykh Khlopchykaŭ" (Halya's "I," or the Planet of Curious Boys) (1990), a collection of stories "Viachera Manekenau" (Dinner of Mannequins) (2002).
Awarded the Arkadz Kuliashoŭ Literary Prize of the Union of Writers of the BSSR (1988) for her book of lyrics "Kakhannie" (Love), as well as the State Prize of Belarus in the field of literature, art, and architecture (1994) – for her poetry book "Liusterka dlia Samotnai" (Mirror for the Lonely Woman).
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