Siarhey Balakhonau

Syarhey Balachonau (or Siarhiej Bałachonaŭ, Belarusian: Сяргей Балахонаў ) ( born April 24, 1977 in Swjazilawitschy, Rajon Vetka, Homelskaja Woblasz ) is a Belarusian writer.

Biography

According to official data Balachonau was born in Gomel. However, his actual birthplace is the village Swjazilawitschy. Balachonau graduated from the secondary school No. 49 in Gomel with the deeper study of the German language (1994) and the historical faculty of the State University of Homel (1999). In 2000 he served in the armed forces of Belarus. Since 2001 he has worked as a history and social studies teachers in Homel.

Creation

The literary work of Balachonau began in 1992, but none was the work which he had written to the fall of 1998 was published. These are the poetry collections The Sun runs ( Сонцавароты ), The frost sheets ( Брама сталасьці ), my Belarusian ... ( « Мой беларускі ... "), The twentieth eye of spring ( Дваццатае вока вясны ), The Hunt for the text ( Паляваньне на тэкст ), the unfinished epic poems day, my beloved! ( Прывітаньне, мая каханая ), Ales Halscheuski ( Алесь Гальшэўскі ), some utopian novels and the story is The Unherbst met them ( Іх спаткала нявосень ).

Published in 1998 some of his works in the journal underground magazine icon and newspapers Nasha Slova ( Our Word ) and Nasha Niva (Our field ). As of 1999, his diaries, edited Modern urban legends say, the sketches, the historical mystifications, the poems, the musical reviews were among others published in Nasha Niva.

From 1999 to 2000, the newspaper of the Homeler Association of Belarusian Students printed SuBaSzik ( Beißling ) a series of Balachonaus texts.

2001 Balachonau made ​​his debut in the journal ARCHE. In the summary of his work to death of the lute player ( Сьмерць лютністы ) the work of the author was based on postmodernism for the first time.

In the Czech magazine host 2005 he published his literary criticism articles Někdo tam ever aneb Rozcestí nové běloruské literatury. End of 2005, the publisher Ihar Lohwinau published the first book of the writer, the prose collection The name of the bulb ( Імя грушы ). In early 2007 this book was for the Literature Prize Hliniany Viales - nominated in 2006.

Balachonaus tale The Snow by Captain Montgomery ( Сьнег капітана Мантгомэры ) was published in 2006 in the almanac Kalosse ( The Gleaners (editor Ales Arkusch ). A selection of his works is in the audio book of modern Belarusian literature Nocturnal reading ( Начная чытанка ) from 2007 to find.

In addition Balachonau has some songs of the band Rammstein translated into the Belarusian language.

• The name of the bulb ( Імя грушы ) (2005 )