Victor Martinovich (Belarusian: Віктар Вале́р'евіч Марціновіч, Viktar Marcinovič, Russian: Ви́ктор Вале́рьевич Мартино́вич; born September 9, 1977) is a Belarusian writer and art historian.
Viktar Martinowich | |
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 Martinowich signing his book Paranoia, Literaturhaus Zürich, April 8, 2015 | |
| Native name | Віктар Марціновіч |
| Born | September 9, 1977 Ashmyany, Belarus |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, art critic |
| Alma mater | Belarusian State University (PhD) Vilnius Academy of Arts (PhD) |
| Genre | Antiutopia, adventure, detective |
| Years active | 2009-present |
| Website | |
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Biography edit
Victor Martinovich was born in Ashmyany, Belarus. In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Belarusian State University (BSU), and in 2002 he obtained a PhD from BSU with a thesis about the Vitebsk avant-garde art in Soviet newspapers of the 1920s.[1]
From 2002 to 2015, he was a deputy editor-in-chief of the BelGazeta newspaper.[2]
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".[3]
He is an associate professor at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania).
Fiction novels edit
His first fiction book, Paranoia, was published in 2009. The book was published in Russia (AST Publishing) and was banned for sale in Belarus. The text was positively reviewed in the New York Review in 2010 by Timothy Snyder[4] and in the New York Times in 2013 by Arkady Ostrovsky.[5] In 2012, Paranoia was published in Finland. In 2013, North Western University Press published an English translation of Paranoia, prepared by Diane Nemec Ignashev, Professor of Slavic Literature at Carleton University. The foreword to the book was written by Timothy Snyder.[6] In 2014, German translation of the book is published by Voland und Quist and received positive reviews in Frankfurter Allgemeine zeitung,[7] Tagesspiegel,[8] and German Culture radio.
Later his books received attention and received awards from Belarusian and Russian literature societies.[9][10][11][12].
In 2021, during the 2020-2021 Belarusian protests, 558 copies of his last book, Revolution, were confiscated.[13] At the same time, Belarusian customs forbad mailing the book to any other country.[14]
Art history edit
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. In 2016 the monograph named Rodina. Marc Chagall in Vitebsk published in the publishing house of European Humanities University and in 2017 republished in the leading Russian scientific publishing house New Literary Review[15].
Film adaptations edit
In 2018 Vozera radasti, based on the novel Lake of Joy, was filmed by the German director of Belarusian origin Alexei Paluyan. The film received numerous European awards and after the victory at L.A. Shorts was nominated for Oscar 2021; in February 2021 it was longlisted for Oscar.
Bibliography edit
- Рэвалюцыя (Revolution). Knihazbor, Minsk 2020, ISBN 978-985-7227-71-6
- Ноч (Night), Knihazbor, Minsk 2018, ISBN 978-985-7207-28-2
- Родина. Марк Шагал в Витебске (Homeland. Marc Chagall in Vitebsk). NLO, Moskau 2017, ISBN 978-5-4448-0563-3
- Возера радасці (Lake of Happiness). Knihazbor, Minsk 2016, ISBN 978-985-7144-51-8
- Мова 墨瓦 (Mova). Knihazbor, Minsk 2014, ISBN 978-985-7089-80-2
- Cфагнум (Sphagnum). Knihazbor, Minsk 2013, ISBN 978-985-7057-63-4
- Сцюдзёны вырай (Icy paradise). Piarshak, Minsk 2011
- Паранойя (Paranoia). AST, Moskau 2009, ISBN 978-5-17-062385-3
References edit
- ^ "Творческая встреча с Виктором Мартиновичем - белорусским писателем и журналистом" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2016-09-18. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
- ^ "Биография —". 2014-07-19. Archived from the original on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ "Мартинович Виктор. Витебский авангард (1918-1922): социокультурный контекст и художественная критика" (in Russian). Европейский гуманитарный университет. Archived from the original on 2012-06-16. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
- ^ Snyder, Timothy. "In darkest Belarus". The New York Review.
- ^ Ostrovsky, Arkady. "Romantically Incorrect".
- ^ "Paranoia. A Novel by Victor Martinovich".
- ^ Ackermann, Felix. "Der Verleger, der seine eigenen Bücher verbrannte".
- ^ Henneberg, Nicole. "Viktor Martinowitsch mit "Paranoia": Liebe in der Diktatur".
- ^ Сьмятаньнікаў, Андрэй (2012-01-18). "Названыя 12 лепшых кніг 2011 году" (in Belarusian). Generation.by. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
- ^ Аксак, Валянціна (2012-03-14). "Найлепшай дэбютнай кнігай – 2011 стала..." Радыё Свабода (in Belarusian). Радио Свобода. Archived from the original on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
- ^ "Российская литературная премия «Национальный бестселлер»: длинный список 2013 года". Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
- ^ "ESFS Awards 2014". 2014-08-24.
- ^ У выдавецтве «Кнігазбор» канфіскавалі ўсе асобнікі раману «Рэвалюцыя» Віктара Марціновіча, Радыё Свабода, 4-01-2021
- ^ Беларуская мытня не прапусціла за мяжу раман Віктара Марціновіча «Рэвалюцыя», Новы час, 5-01-2021
- ^ "New Literary Review".