A Writer in Exile

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.

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Alhierd Bacharevič (Альгерд Бахарэвіч) is a Belarusian writer. Born in 1975 in Minsk. Author of several books of fiction, essays and poetry. His novels and collections of essays have been translated into English, German, French, Polish and Russian. His magnum opus, the novel Dogs of Europe, is banned in Belarus. This novel was staged in London and Paris by the Belarusian Free Theater and in Poland by the Belarusian theater in exile, Kupalaucy. The novel Alindarka's Children was released in 2022 in the USA. He is author of the open Letter to Ukraine (2022) and of the essay Fascism as a memory (2020) translated into many languages. Together with his wife, poet Julia Cimafiejeva he took part in mass protests in Belarus in 2020. Now he lives in exile.

Miriam Cosic is a Sydney-based journalist and critic, a former literary editor of The Australian, and a member of the management committee of Sydney PEN. Cosic is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Sydney and the author of two books, Only Child and Right to Die: An Examination of the Euthanasia Debate.

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