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Serhij Zhadan (b. 1974 in Starobilsk, Ukraine) studied German Studies at the Pedagogic University of Charkiv before gaining a doctorate with a thesis on Ukrainian Futurism. He is the enfant terrible of contemporary Ukrainian literature. He is an explosive talent popular with the younger generation of readers who came to prominence while still relatively young with his ability to make rapid shifts between poetic techniques. He wrote texts, mainly poetry, while still a student, and later turned to prose as well. His debut collection in 1995 was 'Zytatnyk', which was followed by numerous collections of poetry and prose.
In 2006 Serhij Zhadan received the Hubert Burda Prize for Eastern European Poetry. In addition to writing, he organises festivals (including the Anarchy Festival in Guljaj-Pole) and translates from German, Russian and Belarussian.
Selected bibliography
The Book of Quotations (poems, 1995).
General Judas (poems, 1995).
Pepsi (poems, 1998).
the very very best poems, psychodelic stories of fighting and other bullshit (poems, 2000).
Ballads on War and Reconstruction (poems, 2001).
History of Culture at the Turn of This Century (poems, 2003).
Big Mac (prose, 2003).