International Writers Series: Volha Hapeyeva

Join the International Writers Series for a reading and discussion with 2025 Max Kade Visiting Writer Volha Hapeyeva, a Belarusian poet living in exile in Austria and Germany. She will present her work in discussion with Lisa Skarmina, an MA student in the Department of Comparative Literature & Thought.

Free and open to all, registration requested.

Co-sponsored by WashU Libraries and the Department of Comparative Literature & Thought.

Volha Hapeyeva (born in Minsk, Belarus) is a poet, writer, translator, linguist, and artist. She writes in Belarusian and German and has received numerous prizes and awards for her work, including the English PEN Translates Award for the poetry book In My Garden of Mutants (2021, Arc Publications), the Wortmeldungen Literature Prize (Germany, 2022), and the Manuskripte Prize (Austria, 2025), among others. Her poems have been translated into more than 15 languages. She was a 2019–2020 writer in residence in Graz, a fellow of the Writers in Exile Program of German PEN, and a 2022–2023 fellow of the DAAD Artists in Berlin Program. In 2020, she curated the Days of Poetry and Wine Festival (Slovenia). Since 2020, she has lived as a nomad in exile in Austria and Germany.