Marina Hobbel – (im)possibility of writing
Illustration: Awhinnia Ptyshka
Editor: Uljana Veryna
hochroth Minsk
Berlin, 2024
ISBN 978-3-949850-55-4
Marina Hobbel is the writer, translator, and editor. She was born in Minsk and moved to Norway in 2003. Graduated from the Belarusian State University, PhD of Philological Sciences, Master of Cultural History of the University of Oslo. Hobbel writes in Russian, Belarusian, and Norwegian. She translates poetry and prose from Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian to Norwegian, and from Norwegian to Belarusian and Russian.
Hobbel is the author of two prose books: “Великий материализатор” (“The Great Materializer”, 2002) and “Бабочка, бедный листочек” (“Butterfly, Poor Leaf”, 2012). Her novellas, short stories, poems, articles, and translations have been published in digital and analog editions in Belarus, Norway, Sweden, the USA, Russia, and Kazakhstan. This book includes poems written from 2021 to 2024.