Background
By official data, Balakhonau was born in Gomel, although the real place of his birth is village Śviaciłavičy, in the Vetka Raion of Homiel Voblast.
By official data, Balakhonau was born in Gomel, although the real place of his birth is village Śviaciłavičy, in the Vetka Raion of Homiel Voblast.
He graduated from Homiel secondary school № 49 with deepened studies of German in 1994, and from the history department of the Homiel State University (1999).
In 2000 he served in Internal Troops of Belarus. From 2001 he works as the teacher of history and social science in Homel.
Then the writer shows himself as an apologist of postmodernism in polemics with the literature critic Daniła Žukoŭski.