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Zmicer Daškievič: The Worm?

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: May 10, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00

How can one resist totalitarianism?

Zmicer Daškievič is a Belarusian writer, civic and political activist and former political prisoner. As the leader of the youth organisation Young Front, regarded by the current Belarusian regime as the most dangerous youth group, he has been imprisoned twice (the first time for a year and a half, the second for almost three years). On top of this, he has been locked up for innumerable days in short “administrative sentences” and paid out tens of thousands of dollars in total in countless fines, while he and his family are under constant pressure from the authorities. During his most recent imprisonment, in 2010–2013, he wrote a book of raw, prison-themed short stories entitled The Worm, which is now coming out in Czech.

Alena Kovářová-Cichanovič will chair this debate on the subject of Christianity and politics, contemporary Belarus and how one can resist a totalitarian regime with Zmicer Daškievič and Světlana Vránová, an expert on Belarus and the book’s translator.

Jáchym Topol will introduce the evening and read excerpts from The Worm.

Interpretation from Belarusian into Czech provided.

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