Camel Travel is Hapeyeva’s wry and poetic novel about coming of age in Belarus around the end of the Soviet Union. Camel Travel was shortlisted for the Jerzy Giedroyc Literary Award in 2020, awarded for the best prose book written in the Belarusian Language. It has already been translated into German, where it has gained considerable attention. The novel was adapted for the stage at Stuttgart Theatre, as well as being highlighted by acclaimed authors including Miriam Zeh, and in features, favourable reviews and interviews in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Original Title: Camel Travel
Original Language: Belarusian
Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 102
Publisher: Halijafy (Belarus). The publisher was closed by the Belarusian regime for political reasons, and rights have reverted to the author.
Rights: Volha Hapeyeva; volha.hapeyeva@gmail.com
World English rights available
German Translation: 2021, Droschl, translated by Thomas Weiler
»Hapeyeva is a boundary-blurring magician of words, something that becomes quite evident in these short stories, in which words, tone, rhythm and the precise observations combine to create a shimmering pull.« (ND Literature)
»It shows us (Westerners) a world right next to ours, in which many things were very different … Refreshingly different!« (Dierk Wolters, Frankfurter Neue Presse)
»Born in Minsk in 1982, the author hints with subtle irony at what was characteristic of her generation: an authoritarian school system, a dogmatic state ideology, an ambivalent relationship with the Soviet Union, the nuclear accident in neighbouring Ukraine, an economy of scarcity and a reactionary image of women.« (Amnesty Journal)
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