Festival internazionale
di letteratura a Venezia
prossima edizione: 15 18 aprile 2026

Dmitrij Strocev Belarus

Friday April 17 - 9.30 am

Auditorium Santa Margherita  - Emanuele Severino

Poets for Incroci

Dmitrij Strocev

Kim Simonsen (Fær Øer Islands - Denmark)

Juan Ignacio Siles Del Valle (Chile - Bolivia)

In collaboration with Dipartimento di Linguistici e Culturali Comparati

Dmitrij Strocev (Dmitry Strotsev) (Minsk, 1963) is one of the most significant voices in Belarusian literature in Russian. He is the author of many poetry collections translated into several languages. In Italian, he published the essay collection Andata e ritorno in 2020 and, in the same year, received the Ciampi Prize. The poetry collection Sestra strana (Сестра страна) was published as Terra sorella by Valigie Rosse 2021. Strocev is a member of the Belarusian PEN Club, curates the archive of the poet Veniamin Blažennyj, and collaborates with the Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Spiritual Heritage Foundation. Since 2014, due to his outspoken support for Ukraine, his name has been placed on a blacklist by Belarusian publishers, preventing him from publishing in his home country. In October 2020, he was arrested for participating in the protests that swept across Belarus. He currently lives in exile in Berlin, where he founded the publishing house hochroth Minsk. His most recent publications include War and Peace. Selected Poems 1992–2023 (tiptop street, 2025) and Ukrayinskyy ikonopys: poetychnyy reportazh 2014–2025 rokiv (Український іконопис: поетичний репортаж 2014–2025 років) (Duch i Litera, 2025)

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