Vladimir Sorokin (Владимир Сорокин, Vlagyimir Szorokin) was born in a small town outside of Moscow in 1955. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, but turned to art and writ…
Gianrico Carofiglio (born 1961) is a novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the Italian city of Bari. His debut novel, Involuntary Witness, was published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 b…
Russian-Israeli prose writer. Her most famous work is Dual Surname (Двойная фамилия) which was recently turned into a film screened on Russia's Channel One.
Sergiusz Piasecki was one of the most renowned Polish language writers of the 20th century. His most famous work, Kochanek Wielkiej Niedzwiedzicy (The lover of Ursa Major), published in 1937, was the …
Vasil Bykov (Vasil Bykaŭ) was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. A significant figure in Soviet and Belarusian l…
Alhierd Baharevič is a Belarusian writer and translator. For his first book Практычны дапаможнік па руйнаваньні гарадоў (A practical tool for the destruction of cities) he received the Hlinjany Wjales…
Саша Филипенко родился в Минске в 1984 году. Окончил филологический факультет СПбГУ, магистратуру. Получил диплом «Бард Колледжа» в Нью-Йорке. Работал сценаристом б…
Karatkievič was born in 1930 in Vorša, Viciebsk region. In 1954, he graduated from the Philological Department of Kyiv University and taught first in a village school in the Kyiv region of Ukraine and…
Ivan Mielež (Belarusian: Іван Паўлавіч Мележ, Russian: Ива́н Па́влович Ме́леж ; 8 February 1921, Hlinischy, Homiel Voblast — August 9, 1976, Minsk) was a Belarusian writer.
Margot Friedländer was a German survivor of the Holocaust and public speaker. She and her family were persecuted by the Nazis for being Jews. Born and raised in Berlin, she was forced to go into hidin…
Viktar Martinowich (Belarusian: Віктар Вале́р'евіч Марціновіч, Russian: Ви́ктор Вале́рьевич Мартино́вич; born September 9, 1977) is a Belarusian writer, journalist, and art critic. Martinowich was born…
