Andrej Dyńko

Andrej Dyńko ( _be. Андрэй Дынько) (born 1974) is a Belarusian journalist and chief editor of the oldest Belarusian weekly newspaper, "Naša Niva", and one of the editors of the magazine Arche.

Adrej was born 1974 in Brest, Belarus. He became a professor at Minsk State Linguistic University in 1997. In 1998 he became an editor to Arche (magazine) magazine, and in 1999 an editor for "Naša Niva". Andrej left his as Professor, and became chief editor of "Naša Niva" in 2000. From 2002—2004 he was vice-president of the Belarusian PEN-Centre.

In 2003 Andrej Dyńko became the first non-Czech chosen jointly with Vaclav Havel to receive the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award from the Prague Society for International Cooperation.

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*http://www.eurozine.com/authors/dynko.html