Jakub Lapatka

He translated the Karelian-Finnish epic "Kalevala" from Finnish into Belarusian.
"The work was hard, but I finished it with anger, because one guy asked me, why I translate Kalevala into Belarusian, when there is a translation into Russian yet"
"For a good translation I had to make friends with epic heroes. I looked at them and saw that they are very similar to us, Belarusians, in its simplicity"