The opening will take place today.
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Photo from Natallia Hardzijenka’s Facebook
“A Belarusian shelf is being created in the Kvartira bookstore in Brooklyn (731 Washington Ave, near the Brooklyn Museum).
Today, May 16, at 7:30 PM, writer and journalist Tatsiana Zamirouskaya, its initiator, will open and present this shelf.
Among others, our latest BINiM [Belarusian Institute of Science and Art] publications will also be there. If anyone in New York wants to purchase the latest issues of the almanac “Zapіsy BINiM”, the books “Our Cemeteries”, “Yanka Zaprudnik”, “Selected Works” by Kastus Yezavitau, please visit the presentation, or directly the store during its working hours!” — wrote Natallia Hardzijenka, a researcher of Belarusian emigration, on her Facebook page.
“Where in New York can you buy books by contemporary Belarusian authors? And where can you learn more about them — and finally talk about current Belarusian literature in exile outside the Slavic, Russian-speaking, and post-Soviet context?”, — writes Tatsiana Zamirouskaya.
“Come to us on May 16 — we are opening a Belarusian shelf in our “Kvartira”. And we are opening it with almost a complete catalog of the young, but already cult, Warsaw-based Belarusian publishing house “Miania Niama” (I Don’t Exist). And one of the authors of this publishing house, and also our New York writer Tatsiana Zamirouskaya, will talk about it — and about Belarusian literature.
You will be able to browse and purchase spring new releases from “Miania Niama”: Toni Lashden’s long-awaited new book “On the Corner of Independence”, Alena Piatrovich’s imprecise memoir about Vitebsk “Blue House. My Story of Vitebsk”, and Dzmitry Strotsats’ autobiographical poem in prose “What Death Looks Like”.
And you will also have a unique opportunity to purchase not only these books, but also Toni Lashden’s border eco-horror “Black Forest”, Paviel Antsipau’s melancholic post-fiction “To Arrive Somewhere, Do Something and Leave”, Siarhiej Krauchanka’s melancholic essays “To Forget on the Electric Train”, Yulia Shatun’s photo-poetry book “Everyone Saw This City Somewhere Else” and much more. A pleasant bonus: Tatsiana Zamirouskaya will read excerpts from her book “Eurydice, Check if You Turned Off the Gas” (2024), which was shortlisted for the Ales Adamovich Prize, the Mikhal Aniempadystau Prize (for design), and the “Dar” Prize,” she wrote.
So, the opening is today at 7:30 PM New York time (doors will open at 7:00 PM).
The entrance fee is 10 dollars, but it can be used as a coupon for purchasing books.