Yevgenia Belorusets Explained

Yevgenia Belorusets is a photographer and writer from Ukraine.^[1] In 2020 she won the Haus der Kulturen der Welt International Literature Award.^[2]

Biography

Belorusets is part of the curatorial group Hudrada and is co-founder of the journal Prostory.^[3] She is known for her reportage with Der Spiegel and Isolarii.

Belorusets has been reporting on her experiences of being in Kyiv during the military attacks from Russia in 2022.^[4] In an interview with Deutsche Welle, she described how she wanted "to keep writing, keep telling stories. And do what I can do, here and now. I can't really plan anything in this situation."^[5]

Bibliography

• War Diary, translated by Greg Nissan (New Directions/Isolarii, March 2023)
• Lucky Breaks, translated by Eugene Ostashevsky (New Directions, March 2022)
• Modern Animal (Isolarii, July 2021)
• Glückliche Fälle, translated by Claudia Dathe (Matthes & Seitz, 2019)
• Me and her (Pinchuk Art Center, 2018)
• Happy Fallings (IST Publishing, 2018)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Die ukrainische Künstlerin Yevgenia Belorusets - Kleine Alltagswelten inmitten des Krieges .
2. Web site: 21 January 2022 . Internationaler Literaturpreis 2020 .
3. Web site: Yevgenia Belorusets.
4. Web site: A wartime diary by Yevgenia Belorusets.
5. Web site: 'Most stayed': Ukrainian artist Yevgenia Belorusets in Kyiv | DW | 02.03.2022. Deutsche Welle.