Volha Złotnikava
The Gatherers of Apples
Illustration by Anatoly Klukovkin
hochroth Minsk
Berlin, 2026
ISBN 978-3-949850-80-6
Volha Złotnikava is a Belarusian poet and translator. She was born in Minsk in 1987. She is the author of such books of poetry as “Паства” (“The Flock”, 2016), “Радогощенский дневник” (“The diary of Radahošča”, 2018), “Наперадзе толькi лес” (“There is only forest ahead”, 2023). Her poetry has been published in such collections as “Il mondo è finito e noi invece no” (The Anthology of the contemporary Belarusian poetry in Italian translations), “Анталогiя сучаснага беларускага верлiбра” (“The Anthology of the contemporary Belarusian vers libre”), “Анталогiя паэтак: выбранае Вальжынай Морт” (“The Anthology of poetesses: selected by Valžyna Mort”), etc. Volha’s poetry has been translated to Ukrainian, English, and Italian. She writes in Russian and in Belarusian. She lives in Minsk.