Nasta Kudasava

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Poet, translator. Born on May 25, 1984 in Ragachoŭ, Gomel region, Belarus. Graduated from Faculty of Philology and Master’s degree of BSU (2007). 
Author of poetry books “Лісце маіх рук” (“Leaves of my hands“, 2006), “Рыбы” (“Fishes“, 2013), “Маё невымаўля” (“My nievymaŭlja“, 2016), “Вясна. Вуснам цесна” (“Spring. The mouth is tight“, 2021), “Побач” (“Nearby”, 2022), “Я працягваю” (“I’m continuing”, 2023). Member of the “Union of Belarusian Writers“. 
 
She received the award of the Belarusian PEN Center “Book of the Year-2016″ for the collection “My nievymaŭlja“, the award “Prazrysty Eol” (2018) in the nomination “The Best Poetic Publication of the Year”, the Mikhas’ Straltsoŭ Literary Prize in 2021. Winner of the Magdalena Radziwill Scholarship for Writers and translators (2018), winner of the first Uladzimir Karatkievich Festival (2019). Participant of various international poetry festivals — “Poems on the pavement“, “Kyiv Laurels“, “Meridian Lutsk“, etc. 
 
The poems were translated into Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, English, Lithuanian.