Serhiy Zhadan (Сергій Жадан) was born in 1974 in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine, graduated fron Kharkiv University and got his PhD there with the thesis on the key figure in Ukrainian avantguarde poetry of early XXth century Mykhaylo Semenko. Zhadan has published about 30 books of poetry and prose in Ukrainian, as well as translations from Paul Celan, Czesław Miłosz, Charles Bukowski, contemporary Russian and German authors. He has also issued several albums of his poems performed together with a rock band. Zhadan was awarded with many national and international literary awards including “Angelus” prize for the best book of Central Europe (2015).
Serhiy Zhadan (Сергій Жадан) was born in 1974 in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine, graduated fron Kharkiv University and got his PhD there with the thesis on the key figure in Ukrainian avantguarde poetry of early XXth century Mykhaylo Semenko. Zhadan has published about 30 books of poetry and prose in Ukrainian, as well as translations from Paul Celan, Czesław Miłosz, Charles Bukowski, contemporary Russian and German authors. He has also issued several albums of his poems performed together with a rock band. Zhadan was awarded with many national and international literary awards including “Angelus” prize for the best book of Central Europe (2015).