Serhiy Zhadan Comments

From the New Literary Review (2007) : ''Zhadan's prose is so poetic, his free verse so prosaic. It is difficult to assign a genre to his work: memoir, travelogue, timely or untimely meditation – or a mixture of all these, centered on the themes my generation and our epoch'' [Wikipedia]

1. Zhadan participated in the 2004 Orange Revolution demonstrations against corruption and voter intimidation in the presidential run-off elections. In 2013 he was a member of the coordination council of Euromaidan Kharkiv. The 5 day Maidan revolution resulted in resignation of Russian backed President Yanukovych.

2. Since 2014 Zhadan has made numerous visits to the front lines of the Eastern Donbas region involved in armed conflict with Russian separatists. In February 2017 he co-founded Serhiy Zhadan Charitable Foundation to provide humanitarian aid to front-line cities.

Zhadan is an internationally known Ukrainian writer, with 12 books of poetry and 7 novels, and winner of more than a dozen literary awards. He has translated poetry from German, English, Belarusian, and Russian, from such poets as Paul Celan and Charles Bukowski.

Serhiy Viktorovych Zhadan is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. Born 23 August 1974 in Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast, he graduated from H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University in 1996