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Belarus
Winner of the Crystal of Vilenica poetry award, lauded on both sides of the continent, Mort is a resolute and dexterous presence in contemporary East coast American poetry circles. A native of Belarus, her poetry is remarkable for its elegance and fluidity, and its ability to maintain an idiom both utterly modern and somehow enduring.
A lauded playwright, critic and linguistic philosopher, as well as a poet, her depth and zest have marked her out as one of the most hopeful female poets writing in Europe at large. Her work is marked but a sensitivity and care that many would find incongruous with her rigour and methodological pragmatism.
An interview with Volya Hapeyeva ( Belarus ) by SJ Fowler
“Born in Minsk, Belarus (part of the former Soviet Union), in 1981, Valzhyna Mort has been praised as ‘[a] risen star of the international poetry world’ by the Irish Times. When…