Alhierd Bacharevic

Alhierd Bacharevic grew up in a linguistically-torn country. Despite growing up speaking Russian, Bacharevic rebelled by speaking and writing in Belarusian. In the 1990's he was the founder and vocalist of the first Belarusian language punk band, Pravakacyja ('Provocation'). He is now an award winning author and his works have been translated into French, German, Czech, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Russian, Polish and Lithuanian.

Alhierd Bacharevic grew up in a linguistically-torn country. Despite growing up speaking Russian, Bacharevic rebelled by speaking and writing in Belarusian. In the 1990's he was the founder and vocalist of the first Belarusian language punk band, Pravakacyja ('Provocation'). He is now an award winning author and his works have been translated into French, German, Czech, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Russian, Polish and Lithuanian. See less