26 November, 18:30
The Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Pariser Straße 1, 10719 Berlin
Language: The event will be held in Belarusian with simultaneous interpretation into German.
Registration: Advance registration is required. Please fill out the form.
Writers, readers, and researchers will come together for the annual Aleś Adamovič Award Ceremony. The evening will celebrate outstanding works addressing pressing issues of our time and honor the 2026 laureate.
The ceremony will take place as part of the two-day workshop “Cultural Crossroads: Popular Culture, Diaspora, and the Quest for Belonging”, organized by ZfL on November 26–27 as part of the research project “Narratives of Diasporic Identities in Popular Culture: Belarus after 2020”. Learn more about the workshop.
Established in 1995 by PEN Belarus and presented with the support of Nobel Prize-winning writer Sviatlana Alexievich, the award honours the memory of the distinguished Belarusian writer, public intellectual, and civic activist Aleś Adamovič.
The evening will offer an opportunity to learn more about the works on this year’s shortlist, meet members of the Belarusian literary community, and witness the announcement of the 2026 laureate. This will be followed by a special discussion with the laureate, moderated by member of the PEN Belarus Board, playwright and actress Kasia Chekatouskaya.
More than an award ceremony, the evening will be a space to reflect on the role of literature and public writing in confronting the defining questions of our time. As we approach the centenary of Aleś Adamovič’s birth in 2027, the award also invites us to return to his legacy: his attention to the voices of witnesses, his search for truth through lived experience, and his insistence that literature engage directly with the realities and moral challenges of its time.
We warmly invite everyone interested in Belarusian literature, culture, and contemporary public discourse to join us in Berlin for the 2026 Aleś Adamovič Award.