JAKOB WUNDERWALD is a translator, researcher, and PhD candidate in Slavic Studies at Potsdam University. He has translated works by Valerian Pidmohylny, Olena Stiazhkina, Margaryta Surzhenko, and others. His research focuses on contemporary and Soviet Belarusian literature, where he has a special interest for aspects of Gender, nation-building, and the literary concepts of “truth”.