AWW23: A Writer in Exile - Alhierd Bacharevič
Chair: Miriam Cosic
In an open letter to the people of Ukraine in 2022, novelist, journalist and playwright Alhierd Bacharevič wrote: “I am prepared to take upon myself the shame and disgrace of Belarus for what is happening – in exactly the same way as German writers in the emigration did in the times of the Second World War." Since then, his masterwork, Dogs of Europe, has been banned as ’extremist material’ and confiscated copies have been destroyed.
Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 3:45pm on the West Stage