birth_date: 1977-09-09 00:00:00
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name: Viktar Martinowich
about: Viktar Martinowich (Belarusian: Віктар Вале́р'евіч Марціновіч, Russian: Ви́ктор Вале́рьевич Мартино́вич; born September 9, 1977) is a Belarusian writer, journalist, and art critic.Martinowich was born in Ashmyany. In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Belarusian State University (BSU) and obtained a PhD from BSU in 2002 with a thesis about the Vitebsk avant-garde in Soviet newspapers in the 1920s.From 2002 to 2015, he was a deputy editor-in-chief of the BelGazeta. On June 27, 2008, at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania), he defended his PhD thesis on the topic "Vitebsk avant-garde (1918-1922): socio-cultural context and art criticism". He teaches at the European Humanities University.In October–December 2014, he was eng Viktar Martinowich (Belarusian: Віктар Вале́р'евіч Марціновіч, Russian: Ви́ктор Вале́рьевич Мартино́вич; born September 9, 1977) is a Belarusian writer, journalist, and art critic.Martinowich was born in Ashmyany. In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Belarusian State University (BSU) and obtained a PhD from BSU in 2002 with a thesis about the Vitebsk avant-garde in Soviet newspapers in the 1920s.From 2002 to 2015, he was a deputy editor-in-chief of the BelGazeta. On June 27, 2008, at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania), he defended his PhD thesis on the topic "Vitebsk avant-garde (1918-1922): socio-cultural context and art criticism". He teaches at the European Humanities University.In October–December 2014, he was engaged in research work at the Institute for the Humanities in Vienna where, within the framework of the Milena Jesenská Fellowship for Journalists, he prepared a work about the Vitebsk period of Marc Chagall.His first fiction book was published in 2009. Later his books received attention and received awards from Belarusian and Russian literature societies.A film based on the book Vozera radasti (Lake of Happiness) was made in 2019.In 2021, during the 2020-2021 Belarusian protests, 558 copies of his last book, Revolution, were confiscated. At the same time, Belarusian customs forbad mailing the book to any other country. ...more