December 12, BPN. The FreeAllWords foundation has translated works by twice-jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Aleś Bialacki into seven languages.
“Translators from FreeAllWords have transferred excerpts from his 2014 prison diary (“The Brown Notebook”/“Karyčnievy sšytak” and “Dreams”/“Mary”) into English, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Finnish, French, Spanish and Danish, with impressive speed,” the foundation said.
A German translation will be published later this year, it added.
On October 7, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to Belarusian human rights defender Aleś Bialacki, head of the Viasna Human Rights Center, as well as to human rights organizations Memorial, Russia, and Center for Civil Liberties, Ukraine.
FreeAllWords is a support project for Belarusian and Ukrainian writers, run under the umbrella of the European Writers’ Council (EWC).
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