Serhiy Zhadan: My Ukraine today... and poems
- Where: Montmartre Gallery
- When: February 7, 2014, 19:00 – 21:00
Presentation of the poetry collection Dějiny kultury začátku století [History of the Culture of the 20th Century] (Nakladatelství Petr Štengl publishing house, 2013) with the participation of its writer, Ukrainian poet and novelist Serhiy Zhadan.
After the reading a debate will be held on the subject: Ukraine.
Translators Alexej Sevruk and Miroslav Tomek will host the evening.
Serhiy Zhadan (born 1974, Starobilsk, Ukraine), who grew up during perestroika, the breakup of the Soviet Union and the birth of independent Ukraine, is regarded as a spokesperson for a generation and has written original prose, short stories and several novels. In 2011, the publishers Fra brought out a translation of his short story collection Big Mac (published in Ukrainian in 2003). Fragments of his work have also appeared in Czech in magazines
(Host, Tvar, Plav, iLiteratura.cz, Porohy, Psí víno) and in two Czech anthologies of contemporary Ukrainian prose: Expres Ukrajina [Express Ukraine] (Kniha Zlín, 2008) a Ukrajina, davaj, Ukrajina! [Ukraine, Give, Ukraine!] (Větrné mlýny, 2012).
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