• “The Stone of Fear”

    A Poem by Julia Cimafiejeva

    In solidarity with Belarusian people peacefully defending their dignity in the face of unprecedented abuse of power and massive-scale violence against them. Translated from Belarusian by Valzhyna Mort.

     

     

     

     


    Julia Cimafiejeva
    Julia Cimafiejeva
    Julia Cimafiejeva (Юля Цімафеева) is a Belarusian poet, translator, and one of the founders and editors of a Belarusian literary magazine PrajdziSvet. She is the author of three poetry collections: The Book of Mistakes (2014), Circus (2016) and ROT (2020). Her poems have been translated into English, Ukrainian, Swedish, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Czech and other languages. Her Polish book “Cyrk i inne wiersze” translated by Bohdan Zadura was published in Lublin in 2018 and her German book “Zirkus” (translated by Thomas Weiler and Tina Wünschmann) was published in Berlin in 2019. She participated in literary festivals in Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland and Belarus.





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