This year, we were delighted to welcome Taciana Niadbaj for our 2024 Literature Residency in collaboration with English PEN.
Taciana Niadbaj is a poet, human rights activist, and the President of PEN Belarus. She is the author of the poetry collection Sirens Are Singing Jazz, for which she received the Maksim Bahdanovič Debut Award, and is the founder of the publishing house Połackija Łabitynty.
Taciana is also a translator into Belarusian of Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism by Ewa Thompson, co-author of translations into Belarusian of Our Merry Apocalypse by Leszek Kołakowski, and Twentieth-century Literary Theories by Anna Burzyńska and Michal Paweł Markowski.
In December 2022, she published Ales, by the Nobel Prize-winning writer, activist, and fellow PEN Belarus member Ales Bialiatski.
