Alhierd Bacharevič

writer

Alhierd Bacharevič is a Belarusian author who has written many novels, including Dogs of Europe (Sabaki Eŭropy, 2017), Alindarka’s Children (2020), Victory Square (Plošča Pieramohi, 2021), and The Last Book of Mr. A. (Apošniaja kniha pana A., 2020), as well as collections of essays and a book of poetry. His nine-hundred-page dystopian novel Dogs of Europe, “about the power of language and the language of power, about Belarus as a European island and Europe as a Belarusian dream,” was adapted into a play and staged by Belarus Free Theatre in London, Paris, Berlin, Minsk, and Adelaide. It was also staged in Poland by the independent theatre Kupalaucy. Today all of Bacharevič’s books are banned in Belarus. He left the country and has since lived in Austria, Switzerland, and recently Germany. His books have been translated into German, English, French, Polish, Swedish, and Russian. He has won numerous awards, including the 2025 Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding for Dogs of Europe, the Erwin Piscator Award, the Belarusian PEN Centre’s Book of the Year Award (2014, 2018), and the Jerzy Giedroyc Prize for the best books of prose written in Belarusian (2012, 2013, 2015, 2018).