Siarhiej Bałachonaŭ (or
Siarhei Balakhonau) is a Belarusian postmodern writer.
By official data, Bałachonaŭ was born in Homiel (April 24, 1977), although the real place of his birth is village Sviacilavičy, in the Vietka region of Homiel Region (Voblast). He graduated from Homiel secondary school № 49 with deepened studies of German in 1994, and from the history department of the Homiel State University (1999).
Mature creative activity began in 1992, but all works writen till 1998's fall have never been published. They are collections of poetry «Sunrolls» («Сонцавароты»), «The gate of maturity» («Брама сталасьці»), «My belarusian...» («Мой беларускі...»), «The twentieth eye of spring» («Дваццатае вока вясны»), «The hunting for text» («Паляваньне на тэкст»), unfinished epic poems «Hello, my beloved» («Прывітаньне, мая каханая») and «Ales Halseuski» («Алесь Гальшэўскі»), several fiction stories and narrative «They were met by unfall» («Іх спаткала нявосень»).
First publications appeared in autumn, 1998, in the self-published magazine «Symbol» («Сымболь») (published in Miensk, edited by Vadzim Karcaŭ) and in the newspapers «Nasa Slova» and «Nasa Niva» at the same time. Since 1999 his diaries, some worked-up city legends «Die modernen Sagen», essays, historical mystifications, verses, musical reviews and other works have been publishing at the pages of «Nasa Niva» .
FIn 2001 his debute in the «ARCHE» magazine took place. In the annotation to his story «The death of a lute-player» («Сьмерць лютністы») Bałachonaŭ was firstly associated with the postmodern course. Then the writer shows himself as an apologist of postmodernism in polemics with the literature criticist Danila Zukouski. In 2005 it was a debute in the foreign periodics: Czech magazine «Host» placed his article «Nĕkdo tam je, aneb Rozcestí nove bĕloruské literatury». In 2005 the publisher Ihar Lohvinau distributed the first Bałachonaŭ's book - the collection of proze «The Name of the Pear» («Імя грушы»).
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