Ales Bialiatski

Prize: Nobel Peace Prize — 2022
The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy

occupation: man of letters
literary historian
human rights defender
literary scholar
dissident
writer
teacher
literary critic
field of work: literary studies
human rights protection
literary criticism
history of literature
educated at: Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
end time: 1989
Faculty of Philology, Gomel State University
academic major: Russian
academic major: Belarusian
end time: 1984
employer: Maksim Bahdanovič Literary Museum, Minsk
Viasna Human Rights Centre
position held: The Minsk City Council of Deputies
start time: 1991
end time: 1996
member of: belarusian catholic community
Belarusian PEN Centre
Tuteyshyya
Union of Belarusian Writers
Belarusian Popular Front
Martyrology of Belarus
Talaka
Coordination Council for the Transfer of Power

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