Mark Belorusets was born in 1943 during evacuation in the Urals. He lived in Kyiv, worked as a construction engineer for over 30 years, and was close to the circle of Ukrainian dissidents. Since 1978, he has been published as a translator of German and Austrian poetry and prose into Russian.
For his translations of Paul Celan he was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize (2008), and has also translated Georg Trakl, Robert Musil, Gottfried Benn, Günther Eich, Manes Sperber, Herta Müller, Herta Kreftner and many others. He is a two-time winner of the Austrian Republic Prize. He lives in Berlin.
Abridged list of translations:
Paul Celan. Poems. Gamayun, Kyiv, 1998
Julian Schutting. An Attempt at Reading. Poems. Gamayun, Kyiv, 2000
Manes Sperber. Vain Warning. Gamayun, Kyiv, 2002
Paul Celan. Poems. Prose. Letters (with Tatyana Baskakova)
Ad marginem, Moscow, 2008
Herta Müller. Breath Swings. Amphora, St. Petersburg, 2011
Dragica Rajcic. Integration. Selected Poems and Prose (with Alexandra Grigorenko).
Prostory\Smalta, Kyiv, 2014 (in Ukrainian and Russian)
Jan Wagner. Blues of the Centaurs. Poems (with Yuriy Andrukhovych and Petro Rykhlo). Boox XXI, Chernivtsi, 2017 (in Ukrainian and Russian)
Herta Kreftner. The Path to You Lies Across the Sea. Poetry. Prose. Letters (Together with Roksolana Svyato). Ukrainian Propile, 2023 (in Ukrainian and Russian)
Herta Müller. Famine and Silk. Stories. Essays. Speeches (with Alexandra Grigorenko).
Ukrainian propylae, 2025 (In Ukrainian and Russian)
Publications in collective collections, anthologies, and journals of translations of works by Georg Trakl, Paul Celan, Herta Müller, Nora Gomringer, Durs Grünbein, Esther Kinsky, Ulrich Becher, and others (1988–2020)