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

Yevgenia Belorusets
Notable awardsInternationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Biography edit

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 edit

  • 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)

References edit

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