Das Bienenhaus
Translated in German by Andreas Weihe
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Dmitri Strotsev is a Belarusian poet writing in Russian. Born in Minsk in 1963. An architect by education. Author of 22 books of poetry. Head of the literary and publishing project “New Wineskins”, publisher of the almanac and the poetry series “Minsk School”. Member of the Belarusian PEN Center. Laureate of the Russian Prize (2007). Laureate of the Norwegian Authors’ Union’s Freedom of Speech Award (2020). Laureate of the Ciampi Award – Valigie Rosse (Italy, 2020). Grand Prix of the prize for the best poem of the year by “Metajournal” (2020). Laureate of the Václav Havel Library Foundation Disturbing the Peace Award for a Courageous Writer at Risk (2021). Laureate of Swedish PEN’s Tucholsky Award (2021). Laureate of the Belarusian PEN Center Ales Adamovich Award (2021). The poems have been translated into English, Belarusian, Georgian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, German, Norwegian, Polish, Ukrainian, French, Swedish, Czech, Estonian and other languages. Andreas Weihe was born in Germany in 1951. Studied biology in Kharkiv and Moscow, and has since then been intensively involved with Russian/Soviet literature and culture. Started translating in the 1980s, among his translations are the letters of Marina Tsvetaeva, the texts on literary studies and journalist essays. After ending his scientific career in 2017, Weihe returned to translating prose and poetry from Russian.
