Martinovich is an author of 6 fiction novels, 7 plays, 1 non-fiction books, numerous academic articles and essays.
The second fiction novel by Martinovich, Cold Paradise, has been published as e-release in Belarusian language on the label Piarshak.
It tells a story of a girl who fled from the country after a long hunt by local secret services.
Narration guides the reader through the series of episodes that totally destroy the first impression of what started like a nice love story.
In 2012, Martinovich was recognized with the Debut Literary Award named after Maksim Bahdanovich in prose for his novel Cold Paradise.
[15] His third fiction book, Sphagnum, was presented to public 2013 in Belarusian (in translation of Vital Ryzhkou) and in Russian.
Agents and publishers have called this novel “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in the Belarusian province” and put into the “gangster comedy” niche, but it is also an intellectual “anti-detective” story.
[19] The novel depicts Minsk in the year 2044 as a provincial town in the north-west of the United States of China and Russia.
It tells a story about a Belarusian girl Yasya, who wends her wondrous way between the sleeping Tsarina Agna and the lunar crater Lacus Gaudii, struggling to get out of her messed-up life and into a more human, even if not brighter, future.
Taking a map of the new world and a volume of Herodotus, Knizhnik sets out to find the woman he loves, who at the time of the blackout was in Nepal..."[21] Martinovich began working on the novel Revolution in the early 2010s, and the book was published in Belarus in 2020, and in the Russian publishing house Vremya in 2021.
[22] The novel tells a story of a professor at a private Moscow university who unwillingly becomes a member of a powerful criminal organization.
The prize was presented on June 13, 2017, at the European College of Translators in Straelen by the President of the Art Foundation Dr. Fritz Behrens.
[26] The contest committee awarded Māra Poliakova "for the skillful and steady work of the translator who embodied the prophetic dystopia of the Belarusian author in Latvian, convincingly showing the coding (and narcotic) effect of language".
[27] In 2024, he became a Fulbright visiting professor at Hunter College in New York City, US, where he's writing a book on art history.
[28] In 2018 Vozera radasti [be], based on the novel Lake of Joy, was filmed by the German director of Belarusian origin Alexei Paluyan.
In 2017 Martinovich debuted as a playwright in Belarus with a drama Dr. Raus’ Fortune dedicated to a pioneering Slavic publisher Francysk Skaryna.
In 2022 Revolution, the play based on the novel of the same name, debuted in Deutsches Schauspielhaus, the biggest German language drama theater.