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Biography - Valzhyna Mort

Valzhyna Mort

Biography

Valzhyna Mort was born in 1981 in Minsk, Belarus. Her first book, I’m as Thin as Your Eyelashes, was published in 2005 and comprised of poetry, prose and selected translations from Polish and English. She received the Crystal of Vilenica award in Slovenia in 2004, and the Hubert Burda Poetry Prize for young writers in 2008.

In 2005 she lived in Warsaw, Poland, on a Gaude Polonia scholarship which led in 2007 to a publication of a Polish poet, Rafal Wojaczek, in Belarusian translation entitled Dead Season. Since 2006 Mort has lived in the USA, where she is a writer-in-residence at the University of Baltimore. She has also been a writer in residence at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and Sylt-Quelle in Germany and at the International Authors’ House in Graz, Austria.

Her second book of poetry, Factory of Tears, translated by Mort in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright, and Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, came out in Valzhyna Mort - Blue Flower Arts DATUC