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Illja Sin

Illya Sin (Ілля Сін), by real name Illya Sviryn (Ілля Свірын), is a writer, performer and author of five prose books. Co-founder of the literary movement BumBamLit, the existential clowning group Theater of Psychic Liability and the multimedia group Exorcist Gesamtkunstwerk. Participant in several hundred performances in Belarus and abroad. Winner of several literary prizes, including the Jerzy Giedroyce Literary Award for the best prose book of the year (novel Libido, 2019). The basis of Illya Sin’s creative practice are existential and religious issues expressed freely and playfully. Sin has his own unsystematic writing method and displays a propensity to break all sorts of rules, even those he has set himself.

 Illja Sin