March 27 — Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort returns
Born Valhyna Martynava in 1981 in Minsk, Valzhyna Mort is famed throughout Europe for her poetry and how she reads it … or more accurately, how she performs it.
When: Thursday March 27, 7:30 PM
Where: Butler University, Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room.
At 26, a poet and translator, Valzhyna Mort’s work has been translated into many European languages and published in various literary magazines and anthologies, including an Anthology of Belarusian Poetry. Her American debut – and the first bilingual Belarusian-English poetry book ever published in the United States – Factory of Tears will be published in spring 2008. She writes in Belarusian at a time when efforts are being made to reestablish the traditional language, after governmental attempts to absorb it into the Russian language have been relinquished; at the same time, the Belarusian government is the last enclave of Communist-style repressiveness in Europe, and its president Lukashenko still aspires to recreate something like the USSR. Mort reads her poems aloud in both Belarusian and English. Learn more about her here. Examples of her poetry can be found here.
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