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“In 2017 The Colours of the Parallel World received the Francišak Aliachnovič Award which is given by PEN Belarus for the best work in any genre in Belarusian or Russian that has been written in prison. In 2010 Mikola and several other anarchists were arrested for an attack on the Russian Embassy in Minsk. Mikola’s book must be for now the most detailed description of the experience of a political prisoner in Belarus that we have access to in the English language.” Read more...
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