33 books for another Belarus

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Нетутэйшыя: Reversion

For Belarusian literature, the 1990s were a time of liberation from the rigid corset of the Soviet literary tradition, in which only certain themes and forms were permitted. In the transition period, new forms and unusual combinations of genres proli... More

Zmicier Vishnioŭ

I am the meat that Zmicier has prepared

In his novel about the exile existence of a Belarusian writer in Berlin, Zmicier Vishniou moves between autofiction and fantasy and builds a branching labyrinth that spans different worlds: The deceased friends from Belarus visit the narrator in Berl... More

Diary 2021-2022

This diary was written in Belarus between 2021 and 2022. Publishing it became increasingly difficult and dangerous with each passing year, as the situation continued to escalate after the revolution was crushed and at the same time less and less news... More

Zbych Slupoŭsky

Kinship

Kinship (satire novel) The novel's characters are part of multiple generations that go through upheavals and catastrophes throughout history: Revolution, collectivisation, war, collaboration, the Holocaust, moving out of the villages into the... More

Iryna Herasimovich

Unsolved Equations

As a freelance translator and cultural mediator, Iryna Herasimovich has been travelling between the German-speaking and Belarusian cultural spheres for many years. It is no coincidence that in times of unrest she is repeatedly asked to comment on eve... More

Julia Autz

While I was waiting (2017-2019)

Alexander Lukashenko has ruled Belarus for almost 30 years. A generation has grown up that does not know its homeland without the authoritarian president. What does it mean to grow up under these circumstances? What is it like to live in a country wh... More

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