Viktor Martinovich

Martinovich was born in Oshmiany, Belarus in 1977. He is a political scientist, doctor of art history, and professor at the Vilnius University. He is a regular contributor to the German weekly DIE ZEIT. His literary works are published parallel in the Belarusian and Russian languages. «Paranoia»,published in Russia at the end of 2009, was immediately banned from sale in Belarus (unofficially prohibited). In 2017 he was Writer in Residence at the Literaturhaus Zürich and PWG foundation. Martinovich lives somewhere in the backcountry of Belarus.

Awards: 2020 Best of Fest at LA Shorts (Lake of Happiness)
2012 Bogdanovich Literary Award
2011 Best European Fiction anthology (Dalkey Archive)

foreign rights:
Finland/ Like
Germany/ Voland and Quist
Latvia/ Prometejs
Sweden/ Ersatz
USA/ Northwestern University Press