Надзея Ясмінска. Фота: сацсеткі
Writer Nadzieja Jasminska has been admitted to intensive care following emergency surgery. “The situation is such that I have already been in intensive care for ten days. After the emergency surgery my kidneys are not functioning. But I am holding on and not losing hope,” the writer’s words were conveyed on Facebook.
On social media, readers are wishing her a speedy recovery.
Nadzieja Jasminska was born in Minsk in 1985. She writes for children in Belarusian and Russian.
In 2006 she wrote her first fairy-tale play, “On One New Year’s Night.” The play became a laureate of the open national competition of dramatic works for children and teenagers “The Children’s World Is So Rich” (2006). Her first standalone book was the fantasy poetry collection “Green Songs of Ermintiia,” published by the Belarusian publishing house Haliiafy in 2012.
In 2015, the publishing house Haliiafy released the children’s fairy-tale collection “Seven Roses,” the second book in the “Chronicles of the Dense Forest” series. The book won the prestigious Tsietka Literary Prize in 2016 — for the best text for children and teenagers and for the best artistic design (illustrator — Katsiaryna Dubovik).
Among the writer’s popular books are “A Saucer for the Dragon,” “Why Mesha Has No House,” “How Mesha Found a Tail,” “Kus-Kusiandra,” “Beads and Drops,” “An Extraordinary Birthday,” and “The Unicorn Charmer.”