{"id":5248,"date":"2021-01-29T09:37:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T09:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2024-02-07T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T16:46:03","slug":"austryjskaya-litaraturnaya-supolnascz-vykazvae-salidarnascz-z-belarussyu-i-patrabue-vyzvalennya-volgi-kalaczkaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2021\/01\/29\/austryjskaya-litaraturnaya-supolnascz-vykazvae-salidarnascz-z-belarussyu-i-patrabue-vyzvalennya-volgi-kalaczkaj.html","title":{"rendered":"Austrian literary community expresses solidarity with literary translator Volha Kalackaja and Belarus people"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018In its early days, the revolution was a time of poetry<\/em>\u2019, writes the Belarusian author and translator Alhierd Bacharevi\u010d<\/strong>, currently living in Graz as one of its Pen Writers-in-Exile, the other one being author, translator and photographer Julia Cimafiejeva<\/strong><\/span>, <\/span><\/i>also from Belarus.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it is the power of poetry and art in general, as deployed to lend expression to this peaceful protest, that Lukashenko\u2019s authoritarian regime has been cracking down on with increasing force, including targeted action against artists: publishers have been interrogated or arrested, books confiscated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most recently, on 15 January, the translator <\/span>Volha Kalackaja<\/b> was arrested. She has translated authors such as Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Tennessee Williams and William Golding<\/em>. Last week she was taken away from her apartment by police and detained. She had been supporting the peaceful protests where she lived. The state authority has charged her with organising and participating in actions against public order, for which she could face a jail term of up to three years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Margaret Atwood<\/em> expressed her horror at this cruel assault by government against individuals \u2018whose only desire is to live in a democratic country where their rights are respected<\/em>\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to PEN Belarus, since the beginning of the election campaign in Belarus in spring 2020, there have been more than 600 cases of cultural rights violations, including against PEN Belarus members and staff. The president of PEN Belarus, Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich<\/strong>, has faced continuous harassment, forcing her to leave the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

We demand the immediate release of our colleague Volha Kalackaja. All charges brought against her must be dropped. Repressive measures against artists and individuals engaged in peaceful protest violate human rights and must be stopped and outlawed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

IG \u00dcbersetzerinnen \u00dcbersetzer (Austrian Association of Literary Translators)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

IG Autorinnen Autoren (Austrian Writers\u2018 Association)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00d6sterreichische Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Literatur (Austrian Society for Literature)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00d6sterreichischer PEN-Club – PEN Austria<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Writers-in-Prison-Committee PEN Austria<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

AIIC Austria<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00d6SDV \u2013(Austrian Association of Speech-to-Text-Reporters)\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

UNIVERSITAS Austria (Austrian Interpreters\u2019 and Translators\u2019 Association)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, Graz\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Internationales Haus der Autor:innen Graz (International House of Writers) <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2018In its early days, the revolution was a time of poetry\u2019, writes the Belarusian author and translator Alhierd Bacharevi\u010d, currently living in Graz as one of its Pen Writers-in-Exile, the other one being author, translator and photographer Julia Cimafiejeva, also from Belarus. And it is the power of poetry and art in general, as deployed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5286,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/5286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}