Andrey Khadanovich is a poet, translator, essayist and literature teacher. He was born in 1973 in Minsk. He is the author of ten collections of "adult" poetry, as well as one book of poems for children. The poems have been translated into fifteen languages ​​and published as separate books in Ukraine, Poland and Sweden. He translates poetry from French, English, Polish and Ukrainian. He is a laureate of the Book of the Year award for the children's book "Notes of a Father" (2015), the Carlos Sherman Prize for the translation of Charles Baudelaire's poetry (2017), the Natalia Arsenyeva Prize for the book "Herbal School" (2020), "The Vilenica Crystal" (2008), the Polish PEN Club (2015), and the Jerzy Giedroyc Prize of the Rzeczpospolita newspaper (2021). He taught world literature at the Philological Department of the Belarusian State University, at the Belarusian Collegium, and at the Yakub Kolas Humanitarian Lyceum. He taught classes at the Translator's Workshop at the Belarusian PEN Center and at the School of Young Writers at the Union of Belarusian Writers.