Results of an open call for literary residencies in Warsaw!

The jury: Paulina Ciucka (STL), Anna Fryczkowska (SUL) and Diana Krawiec (SDK, jury secretary) selected the following people to participate in the literary residencies in Warsaw for writers, playwrights and translators from Belarus and Ukraine: 

Maryia Martysevich (BY) - translator, poet and essayist; during her residency she will work on a graphic poem for children entitled "I'm Waiting for Mamatan". Its plot is to be the story of a little boy whose family history is marked by the events in Minsk in 2020; 

Kseniia Koziievska (UA) - playwright, translator; during her residency she will be writing a drama called "Memory of the Future", the theme of which will be the imagination of emotional landscapes in the country after the war. Two people – heroes of this play try to understand what peace really means when the war has changed their senses, language, identity; 

Stanislav Tsalyk (UA) – author of non-fiction books, essayist, screenwriter, historian; during his residency he will continue working on the biography of the film director of interwar Poland, Michał Waszyński (1904-1965); 

Kanstantsin Loichyts (BY) - translator, editor, curator of cultural events; during his residency he plans to start working on the translation of the novel "The Lady" (first published in 1899) by Emma Dmochowska née Jeleńska; 

Sofiia Korn (UA) - translator, researcher; during her residency she will continue working on the translation from Yiddish into Ukrainian of the volume "Farbitene vor" by Rachela Häring Korn (Rochl Korn) - a poet writing in Yiddish and Polish; 

Olena Tereshchenko (UA) - author of fantasy novels for young people and adults, curator of literary events; during her residency she plans to work on a novel based on local Warsaw legends - the third volume of a trilogy, the previous parts were inspired by the legends of Kraków and Lower Silesia; 

Tsimur Kudzyelich (BY) - novelist, poet; during the residency he will create a draft of a novel resembling a political thriller entitled "In Queues for Tumors", the action of the book will be set in a silent, nameless city after the dictatorship, which resembles Minsk. 

 

Reserve list: 

Natalia Balczenko 

Illia Makarenko 

Veronika Kazina 

Andrij Bojarov



Congratulations!