Voices
Voice. When it exists, we have no right to be silent. A report from the discussion
This year, PEN Belarus, Viasna, BAJ, Press Club Belarus, and Free Press for Eastern Europe established the Voice of t...
Siarzhuk Sys: “A person without a spark is like a poem without rhythm”
This interview is part of the Voice of the Freedom Generation collection, which is a living testimony to the creative...
Liubou Luniova: A government afraid of freedom instinctively reaches for the baton
This interview is part of the collection “The Voice of the Freedom Generation ” — a living testimony to the creative ...
Maksim Zhbankou: Life, just life — traumatically beautiful
This interview is part of the collection “The Voice of the Freedom Generation ” — a living testimony to the creative ...
Svetlana Alexievich: Pain is not the ultimate meaning. It is only the beginning
In our conversation, the writer returns to the image of the “red man” and the tragedy of generations, reflecting on p...
PEN Belarus: a history of free expression and cultural resistance
In both Soviet times and modern-day Belarus, freedom of expression has never come easily. It has always required a fi...
Siarhiej Dubaviec: “During a spiritual séance, Kupala plainly told us who killed him. It was…”
Belarusian PEN Questionnaire What do writers think about certain facets of the creative process, the new challenges f...
Alaksandr Łukašuk: “Literature changes only the past.”
Belarusian PEN Questionnaire What do writers think about certain facets of the creative process, the new challenges f...
Uładzimir Arłoŭ: “The time will come—and the word will yet speak its word.”
Belarusian PEN Questionnaire What do writers think about certain facets of the creative process, the new challenges f...
Non-fiction: an urgent task — to break free from the trap of a culture (or cult) of lamentation
Three out of six books on this year’s Jerzy Giedroyc Prize shortlist are works of non-fiction. It is worth noting tha...
Books today are more than just words on paper
October in Europe is a true explosion of various cultural events. Among them was the Revolutionale festival in Leipzi...
Andrej Janushkevich: “The curse that haunted us in Belarus is still at work”
“Like any capital, reader attention must be constantly nurtured” The success of a book depends, first and foremost, o...