There is almost no photo evidence of Carlos Sherman's youth in Latin America. The illegal status of the family and the political persecution in the 1950s, when anti-communist repression increased in Argentina, did not make for good photo documentation. That period of the translator's life remained only in memories, both written and oral. However, after his return to Belarus in 1958, photo albums were actively, as for that time, replenished.

In this photo story, we have used pictures from the personal archives of Vasil Bykaŭ, Siarhej Shapran, and Carlos Sherman as well as from the archives of the Belarusian PEN Centre.

We would like to thank Uladzimier Arloŭ, Taćciana Nikanava, Iryna Sliapovič, Julija Сimafejeva, Siarhiej Šapran, and Siarhiej Šupa for their help in annotating these photos.