Alhierd Bacharevič (b. 1975 in Minsk) is a Belarusian writer. He studied Belarusian literature and linguistics at the Pedagogical University in Minsk. He has published several novels and essay collections, and his books have been translated into German, English, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian and other languages. In 2025, he received the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding for his novel Dogs of Europe, in the German translation by Thomas Weiler. Two of his novels (Dogs of Europe and The last book of Mr. A.) are official banned in Belarus and classified as extremist. In fact, all of his books are currently banned in Belarus.
His 900-page work Dogs of Europe was published in 2017. The novel, which Bacharevič translated into Russian himself, was shortlisted for Russia’s biggest literary prize, the Bolshaya Kniga (2019). The Belarus Free Theater staged the novel in Minsk (2020), London, Paris, Adelaide and Berlin (2022-2023). In Belarus, Alhierd Bacharevič was awarded several literary prizes (Book of the Year, among others). In 2021, he was honored with the German Erwin Piscator Prize. In late 2020, after his participation in mass protests against the regime, he left Belarus and lived in exile in Austria and Switzerland. He currently lives in Berlin.
Alhierd Bacharevič
