Eva Vezhnavets Author

Eva Vezhnavets (Eva Viežnaviec) was born in 1972 in Zahalle, a village south of Minsk. Journalist, translator and writer, she was compelled to leave Belarus and now works at the Katyń Museum in Warsaw, Poland. Historical sections of What Now, Mr Wolf? are based on family stories as well as eyewitness reports and materials from archives and the local press. First published in Minsk in 2020 and reissued in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2024 by Pflaumbaum, the publishing house founded by Svetlana Alexievich, 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, What Now, Mr Wolf? was awarded the highest prize for prose in Belarus in 2021.