ALENA PIATROVICH

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RESIDENCIES SDK FOR WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS FROM BELARUS

Belarusian translator and linguistic researcher in the past (PhD 2014). Translates various genres of books mostly from English and Polish: it can be fiction and non-fiction as well as books for children. Among other things, there were works of Jan Brzechwa, Ryszard Kapuścinski, Małgorzata Szejnert. In 2021, during the Gaude Polonia scholarship, she translated the novel Insatiability (Nienasycenie) by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. Translator of the books about Harry Potter into the Belarusian language. Winner of  the Carlos Sherman Award for translators (2021) for the translation of «Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets».