Nikolai Cherginets revealed the secret of his creative activity

July 12, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Belarusian writer and statesman Nikolai Cherginets shared his secret of creative activity. He spoke about this at a creative meeting with nominees for the Union State Prize in Literature and Art for 2009-2010, which took place today in festival Vitebsk, BELTA correspondent reports. Before answering, Nikolai Cherginets said that he had "heard this question from his superiors more than once." It is not easy to combine literary activity and public service, he shared. "However, if a person truly wants to write, they will write: they will take advantage of any opportunity and every free minute. I wrote on trams, during work breaks and in the evenings, and on weekends I just write voraciously," he noted. Nikolai Cherginets is one of the most widely read Russian-language authors in the CIS countries. The writer is a laureate of the A. Fadeev Literary Prize (1990) and the V. Pikul Literary Prize (1994). For his novels "Your Mission" and "Sons," he has been nominated for the Union State Prize in Literature and Art for 2009-2010. The writer's creative legacy includes more than 50 published scientific works and 53 works of fiction. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Currently, Nikolai Cherginets is working on two books, one of which is half-finished, the second is a quarter-finished, and is also involved in a project to restore the names of Belarusians who left their mark on the history of Russia. -0-