Author of the books Young Front Generation (2002), The National Idea (2005), Letters from the Forest (2007), Brother (2007), I Love Belarus (2008), Belarusian Depth (2014), Belarusian Christian Democracy: 1917-2017 (2017), One Hundred Faces of Belarusian Christian Democracy (2017), Belarusalim. Zolak (2017). Heart of Stone (2019, part of the Prison Literature series), Belarusalim. The Heart of Light (released in June 2020; the presentation was held without the author, as at that time he was in custody serving a month sentence).
For the book Belarusian depth (2014), he received the Francišak Alachnovič Award, founded by PEN Belarus jointly with Radio Svaboda – given for the best work written in prison.
He is also a laureate of Aleś Adamovič Award, founded by PEN Belarus, which he received for
Letters from the Forest (2007).
The novel Belarusalim. Zolak (2017) was nominated for the Jerzy Giedroyć Award in 2018.
On April 2, 1998, Sieviaryniec was arrested for political reasons for the first time, during a demonstration in Minsk, and for “disrupting a concert dedicated to the unification of Russia and Belarus” he was placed in a pre-trial detention center. Two months later, under the pressure of the Belarusian and international community, he was released and sent to Viciebsk on recognizance. The criminal case was closed in November 1998. In 2005, he was accused of organizing protests against the “third term of Lukashenka”, which took place in Minsk after the “2004 referendum” on October 18 and 19. Sentenced to three years home confinement but, thankfully, to the amnesty, the term was reduced to two years. He served his sentence doing harvesting timber in the village of Małoje Sitna, where he wrote Letters from the Forest. He was arrested during a demonstration against election falsification in December 2010. He served five months in a KGB prison, and then two years and two months in a special commandant’s office in the village of Kuplin, Pružanski region, where he wrote Belarusian depth. At that time he was recognized as a political prisoner. He was released in October of 2013.
On June 7, 2020, Pavieł Sieviaryniec was arrested in Minsk during a rally in support of opposition presidential candidates in the square in front of the Kamaroŭski Rynak, next to pickets collecting signatures for the nomination of alternative presidential candidates. Sieviaryniec was supposed to be released after 75 days of administrative arrest on August 21 but instead he was charged under part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (participating in riots) and left in custody.
On May 25, 2021, the Mahilioŭ Regional Court sentenced Pavieł Sieviaryniec to seven years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony. The trial was held behind closed doors.
On July 10, 2020, he was recognized as a political prisoner.
On March 23, 2022, the political prisoner was added to the “List of persons involved in extremist activities.”
In April 2022, the administration of Correctional Colony No. 17 recognized the leader of the Belarusian Christian Democracy as a “malicious violator of the regime” and reduced the allowed number of calls home and money transfers for him. In June, Sieviaryniec informed his relatives that they could no longer come for family visits.
On June 21, 2023, in Škloŭ, in PC No. 17, a trial was held to change the prison regime for Pavieł Sieviaryniec. It was decided to tighten the conditions under which Sieviaryniec will be held for 3 years.
Mail address: Pavieł Sieviaryniec, Penal Colony No.14, Škloŭ, 213004, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8