The
hochroth Minsk publishing house has been operating in Berlin since the beginning of 2023 and specialises in publishing contemporary Belarusian poetry. A special feature of the
hochroth Minsk publishing process is that all books are compiled by hand.
In the print performance with
Dmitry Strotsev and the authors
Sabina Brilo and
Taciana Niadbaj, new books will be produced - from the first pages to the finished issue. Visitors will be able to participate throughout the production process. While their books are being printed, cut and glued, Sabina Brilo and Taciana Niadbaj will read from their works.
Dmitry Strotsev, born in Minsk in 1963, is a Belarusian poet; he writes in Russian. After studying architecture, he initially worked as a designer and later worked in publishing. He is the author of ten volumes of poetry and editor of the poetry series
Minsk School. He is a member of the
Belarusian PEN Center. His award-winning poems have been translated into numerous languages. Dmitri Strotsev currently lives in Berlin.
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Taciana Niadbaj is the current president of
PEN Belarus, writer, human rights defender, and manager of cultural and media projects. Born in Polack, studied in Minsk, Vilnius, and Lublin, and worked in Warsaw and Minsk. In 2015 she returned to Belarus, where she worked for independent media (
Press Club Belarus, till 2017), for Belarusian literature, culture, and human rights (
Belarusian PEN) and coordinated other cultural, media, and publishing projects. In July 2021, she was forced to leave Belarus for security reasons and moved
PEN Belarus' office to Warsaw. Taciana Niadbaj cooperates with
Open Culture Foundation as co-founder and vice-president (since 2012), with Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius as a stakeholder of the Establishment and Chairman, and with independent Belarusian media SNplus. She is the author of the awarded poetry book
Sirens Are Singing Jazz (Połackija Łabitynty, 2014) and has also worked as a translator into Belarusian for various literary works. In December 2022, she published Ales Bialiacki's book,
Ales.
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Sabina Brilo studied media and communication and international human rights standards. From 1994 to 2011, she wrote about law and politics for various mass media such as
Femida and
Femida-Nova, had a column on the website New Europe and was editor of the radio show Belsat. She was a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists Monitoring Group for 17 years, which deals with media monitoring of election campaigns in Belarus. Sabina Brilo was a member of the Belarusian Writers’ Association and the Belarusian Journalists’ Association, both were disbanded by the Belarusian authorities in summer 2021.
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