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Serhiy Zhadan (*1974, Starobilsk, Urkaine) is one of the most important Ukrainian writers of the younger generation, and has been described by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as “Ukraine’s most audacious voice on politics and life at the edge of Europe...”. He began writing during his studies, first poetry, later prose as well. He made his debut in 1995 with the anthology Zytatnyk, which was followed by numerous publications. Since then various translations of his poetry and prose have appeared, in Germany, Russia and other countries. Some 9 years ago Zhadan was among the activists of the Orange Revolution. He is also active as a voice of the recent protest movement against the Yanukovich regime, and took part in the demonstrations in Kharkiw.
His literary Ukraine is a land in which the post-socialist transformation went wrong, where society slid back into a kind of natural state, without the open outbreak of violence, where the lilac sunsets shimmer breathtakingly, because environmental destruction has conjured up its own kind of natural beauty.
Serhiy Zhadan was awarded the Hubert Burda Prize for young poetry in 2006.
Publications
Die Geschichte der Kultur zu Anfang des Jahrhunderts. Gedichte (The History of Culture at the Beginning oft he Century. Poems), Suhrkamp 2006
Depeche Mode. Roman, Suhrkamp 2007
Anarchy in the UKR, Suhrkamp 2007
Hymne der demokratischen Jugend (Hyms of the Democratic Youth), Suhrkamp 2009
Efiopija, Charkiw: Folio, 2009
Lili Marlen, Charkiw: Folio, 2009
Big Mäc. Geschichten (Big Mac, Stories), Suhrkamp 2011
Die Erfindung des Jazz im Donbass. Roman (The Invention of Jazz in the Donets Basin, a novel, Suhrkamp 2012
Vognepal'ni j nozhovi, Kharkiw: Klub Simejnogo Dozvillja, 2012