100 словаў

This book is an anthology of 300 texts by one hundred authors culled from the “100 Words” column of RFE/RL’s Belarus Service website. The column, which debuted in November 2014 and appears six times a week, offers a unique opportunity for professional and amateur writers in Belarus to express themselves freely on a variety of personal as well as public topics. The published texts are limited to 100 words, and are illustrated by European or American paintings from the 19th century and earlier epochs. The column’s curator Jan Maksymiuk describes the project as “an ambitious attempt to create a spiritual portrait of cultured Belarusians in the early 21st century.”