Serhiy Zhadan

Serhiy Zhadan is one of the key voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature He has twice won BBC Ukraine’s Book of the Year (2006 and 2010) and has twice been nominated as Russian GQ’s “Man of the Year” in their writers category. Zhadan has translated poetry from German, English, Belarusian, and Russian, from poets such as Paul Celan and Charles Bukowski. In 2013, he participated in Euromaidan demonstrations in Kharkiv, and in 2014, he was assaulted outside the administration building in Kharkiv, an incident discussed in The New Yorker. He lives and works in Kharkiv.