Tatyana Zamirovskaya

Belarusian writer and journalist

About the author

Tatyana Zamirovskaya was born in 1980 in Borisov, Belarus.

She received a journalism degree from Belarusian State University, worked as a music critic for Belarusian independent media outlets, and was a cultural correspondent for Belgazeta (Minsk), Radio Racja (Białystok, Poland), and the magazine NASH (Dnipro, Ukraine), and wrote about independent Belarusian culture for the online media outlets Kyky and The Village Minsk.

In 2015, she moved to New York, where she completed a master's degree in fine arts at Bard College (Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts).

Until 2025, she worked for Voice of America—until the current US administration effectively froze the media outlet's activities.

Author of the philosophical novel about AI resurrection, memory, and digital dictatorships, Death.net (2021), and the science fiction short story collections Sparrow River (2015) and The Land of Random Numbers (2019).

Eurydice, Check If You Turned Off the Gas (2024) is her first collection of non-fiction, autobiographical prose, as well as her first publication with a Belarusian publisher (the Warsaw-based publishing house Miane Niam).

Tatyana is a scholarship recipient of the MacDowell (2018, 2025), Djerassi (2023), and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2019) art residencies.

Together with Belarusian director Daria Zhuk (New York) and with the support of the Democratic Media Institute / Belarusian Content Lab, she wrote a screenplay for a feature film based on her own short story of the same name, “Exactly What It Seems,” about quantum teleportation, the impossibility of returning home, and the weaponization of nostalgia by authoritarian regimes. The film will most likely be shot in 2026 in Poland.

Lives in New York City (Brooklyn, Bushwick). Still looking for work.

Collects and studies Belarusians' dreams about dictators.

She ran the cult blog “Candles of the Apocalypse” about working in luxury retail in New York—it became a book of the same name.

She occasionally teaches creative writing and has served as an instructor for the Sztuka writing workshop for LGBTQ individuals who have left Belarus. This workshop resulted in the publication of the wonderful anthology Pokoï, featuring texts by the participants (2024).

Рецензии:

Евгения Вежлян о книге Татьяны Замировской «Эвридика, проверь, выключила ли ты газ». Слова вне себя

Разговор Сорина Брута с Татьяной Замировской о её новой книге «Свечи апокалипсиса». Новая газета Европа

Сколько же здесь Минска. Рецензия на книгу Татьяны Замировской «Эвридика, проверь, выключила ли ты газ». Наша Ніва

The Independent Jury will announce the winner on May 25, 2026.

The winner will receive a grant for translation into three languages: English, German, and French.

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