Carlos Sherman

Carlos Sherman was born in Uruguay, studied in Argentina and then moved to Belarus where his father came from. Sherman worked as a translator from Spanish into Belarusian and Russian. Moreover, he was a writer, human rights activist and vice president of the Belarusian PEN Center.

In 2003 he arrived as an ICORN guest writer in Kristiansand, Norway, where he also passed away in 2005 at the age of 71 years.