Vital Voranau

Vital Voranaŭ (, ; born 18 March 1983) is a Belarusian-Polish playwright, translator, writer, academic, and poet. He is a co-founder of Belarusian Cultural and Scientific Centre in Poznań and the publishing house Bely Krumkacz. He was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR and now lives in Poland. He completed his doctorate at Masaryk University in Czech Republic and teaches Irish literature and history of Belarus in Southwestern College in the United States.

He translated Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot and Alan Milne's story Winnie the Pooh into the Belarusian language. Together with Britpop band Hair Peace Salon, he participated in the musical projects of the public campaign Budźma Biełarusami! “Tuzin. Perazagruzka” (with Tuzin.fm) with Belarusian lyrics to the song “Studzień” , “Budzma The Best Rock / Budzma The Best Rock/New” (with European Radio for Belarus) with a literary translation of the words of the song “Ciańki” , and cooperated with , Tanin Jazz, and other bands too.

In 2015, he published his novel Szeptem.