Alena Kazlova

Alena Kazlova (Anka Upala) is a Belarusian writer and translator of literature from English, Finnish and Swedish. She is a member of the Belarusian PEN Centre and a member of the Union of Belarusian Writers where she also coordinated the work of the writing school. Her first book, a collection of poetry and short prose, was published in 2012, followed by the autobiographical novel To the Snow-covered Isle shortlisted for the Jerzy Giedroyc Literary Award in 2018. The novel also took the 3d place in the writers' vote as the book of the year.

During Kazlova’s residency an in-conversation event was hosted with her at the Artica Workshop ‘The Life, The Literature And The Language In-Between’, a recording of the event can be heard here: