Kaciaryna Andrejeva

Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Bachváłava) is a Belarusan journalist; in 2020, she was recognized a political prisoner. Kaciaryna was born in Minsk in 1993 in the family of journalists, historians, and philologists.
As a journalist, she started her work in 2014. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a journalist of the Belarusan service of Radio Liberty, since 2017 — as a correspondent of the Belarusan-language independent television channel “Belsat”. Her materials were published in Ukrainian, Russian, and other foreign mass media.

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Kaciaryna Andrejeva
Kaciaryna Andrejeva

Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Bachváłava) is a Belarusan journalist; in 2020, she was recognized a political prisoner. Kaciaryna was born in Minsk in 1993 in the family of journalists, historians, and philologists.
As a journalist, she started her work in 2014. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a journalist of the Belarusan service of Radio Liberty, since 2017 — as a correspondent of the Belarusan-language independent television channel “Belsat”. Her materials were published in Ukrainian, Russian, and other foreign mass media.
On November 15th, 2020, Kaciaryna was arrested after a live broadcast from the place of the violent police crackdown of a peaceful protest rally on the Square of Changes in Minsk. She was sentenced to 2 years in prison; human rights defending organizations recognized her as a political prisoner. She was moved to a penal colony in Homiel. Kaciaryna had to be released from prison in September 2022, but in April 2022 she was charged with treason (Part №1 of Article №356 of the Criminal Code) by the KGB. On July 13, Kaciaryna was sentenced to 8 years for “high treason“.
Kaciaryna Andrejeva is a laureate of 7 international journalism awards: “PRIX Europe”, “Free Media Award”, “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Mediac, “Axel-Springer-Preis”, “Courage in Journalism Award”, “Dariusz Ficus Award”, and “Hope of Freedom Prize”. She also won twice the journalistic contest of the Belarusan Association of Journalists “Free Words”; in 2020, she was awarded the “Journalist of the Year” by the human rights defending community of Belarus.
She is fluent in English and Spanish. Writes poetry in prison.

Kaciaryna Andrejeva is a laureate of 7 international journalism awards: “PRIX Europe”, “Free Media Award”, “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media”, “Axel-Springer-Preis”, “Courage in Journalism Award”, “Dariusz Ficus Award”, and “Hope of Freedom Prize”. She also won twice the journalistic contest of the Belarusan Association of Journalists “Free Words”; in 2020, she was awarded the “Journalist of the Year” by the human rights defending community of Belarus.

Ángela Espinosa Ruiz
Spanish Translator: Ángela Espinosa Ruiz

Ángela Espinosa Ruiz is a translator, poet, and researcher. She was born in Málaga and graduated the University of Granada; she has a master’s degree in Belarusan Philology from the University of Warsaw. She also has a music diploma (Professional Degree in Piano Interpretation).

Nowadays, Angela is a lecturer at the University of Warsaw, teaching courses in the Belarusan language and literature, the Spanish language, and world literature.

Ángela is an active participant of international conferences and congresses in the humanities and an honorary member of the Union of Belarusan Writers, having published four literary anthologies in the Belarusan language and a bilingual (Spanish-Belarusan) poetry anthology of selected works by Maksim Bahdanovič, as well as several translations and literary works in collective anthologies.

She obtained a PhD in Literary Studies at the Complutense University in Madrid, having graduated summa cum laude after the defense of her dissertation, “Folklore-Inspired Symbolism in the Prose of J. Barščeŭski and G. A. Bécquer” on September 4th, 2019.