Anarchy in the UKR
Original Ukrainian title: Anarchy in the UKR, published in 2005 by Folio, Kharkiv
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Anarchy in the UKR / Anarchy in the UKR
Original Ukrainian title: Anarchy in the UKR, published in 2005 by Folio, Kharkiv
»Forget politics, don't read the papers, don't go online, deny them your voice« – thus begins the »Leftist March«, a chapter of Serhiy Zhadan's second prose volume Anarchy in the UKR, the motto of which is derived from a song by the Sex Pistols.
Zhadan is becoming one of the strongest voices of the young Ukrainian literature – and, at the same time, the antipode of Yuri Andrukhovych. Zhadan's...
Zhadan is becoming one of the strongest voices of the young Ukrainian literature – and, at the same time, the antipode of Yuri Andrukhovych. Zhadan's...
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»Forget politics, don't read the papers, don't go online, deny them your voice« – thus begins the »Leftist March«, a chapter of Serhiy Zhadan's second prose volume Anarchy in the UKR, the motto of which is derived from a song by the Sex Pistols.
Zhadan is becoming one of the strongest voices of the young Ukrainian literature – and, at the same time, the antipode of Yuri Andrukhovych. Zhadan's first-person narrator, too, is constantly on the move: on trains or through bizarre landscapes. Yet he is not drawn towards the ruins of the Habsburg past, but towards the industrial wasteland of the Donbass in the country's southeast, the places of the anarcho-communism that was shattered by the Sowjets. Nobody there seems to recall Nestor Machno. Anarchism? That never existed. That is, until it rises again in November 2004 in Kharkiv, from the feet of the »Fuck-Lenin-Memorial«.
»subtle observations, lucid memory images and heartbreakingly beautiful sentences« Süddeutsche Zeitung
»His books propel the reader out into the world and into life. An author really can’t accomplish much more than that.« KulturSpiegel
»as captivating as it is entertaining« Frankfurter Rundschau
»Literary post-punk […] that observes a world forgotten by Europe and that is in the process of disappearing with a precise, sometimes sentimental eye.« Profil
»His books propel the reader out into the world and into life. An author really can’t accomplish much more than that.« KulturSpiegel
»as captivating as it is entertaining« Frankfurter Rundschau
»Literary post-punk […] that observes a world forgotten by Europe and that is in the process of disappearing with a precise, sometimes sentimental eye.« Profil
»subtle observations, lucid memory images and heartbreakingly beautiful sentences« Süddeutsche Zeitung
»His books propel the reader out into the world and into life. An author really can’t accomplish much more than that.« KulturSpiegel
»as captivating as it is entertaining« Frankfurter Rundschau
»Literary post-punk […] that observes a world forgotten by Europe and that is in...
»His books propel the reader out into the world and into life. An author really can’t accomplish much more than that.« KulturSpiegel
»as captivating as it is entertaining« Frankfurter Rundschau
»Literary post-punk […] that observes a world forgotten by Europe and that is in...
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2005, 216 pages
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Serhij Zhadan
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Serhiy Zhadan was born in Starobilsk, near Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, in 1974 and studied German at Kharkiv University. He has been one of the most influential figures in the Kharkiv scene since the early 1990s. He made his literary debut at 17 and has published numerous volumes of poetry and prose. He was awarded the Jan Michalski Prize and the Brücke Berlin Prize (together with translators Juri Durkot und Sabine Stöhr) for Ворошиловград. BBC Ukraine named Ворошиловград the Book of the Decade. In 2022, Zhadan was named Man of the Year by Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland) and awarded the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his »outstanding artistic work and his humanitarian stance with which he turns to the people suffering...
Serhij Zhadan
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Serhiy Zhadan was born in Starobilsk, near Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, in 1974 and studied German at Kharkiv University. He has been one of the...
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Year of Publication: 2022
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2022
Sky Above Kharkiv
This volume contains a selection of texts that Serhiy Zhadan has been publishing on Facebook since the start of the war on February 24, 2022.
He doesn’t have time to keep a diary....
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English world rights (Yale UP), Poland (Czarne), Slovak Republic (Brak)
Year of Publication: 2020
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2020
Antenna
What can literature do, what should it do, when there is war? What language do the poets resort to? Are their instruments suited to express »what causes fear«? Since the battles in...
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Sweden (Fri Tanke), Finland (selection; Sammakko), Poland (Wrocławski Dom Literatury), Hungary (selection; Jelenkor), Bulgaria (Paradox)
Year of Publication: 2017
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2017
The Orphanage
A young teacher plans on bringing his 13-year-old nephew home from the boarding school at the other end of town. The school, in which his working sister has »parked« her son, has come...
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English world rights (Yale UP), English Audiobook (Blackstone), Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Catalan rights (Quaderns Crema), Portuguese rights (Elsinore), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Voland), Netherlands (de Geus), Denmark (Jensen & Dalgaard), Sweden (Ersatz), Norway (Pax), Finland (Sammakko), Japan (Bulrush), Poland (Czarne), Czech Republic (Argo), Czech Audiobook (OneHotBook), Slovak Republic (Absynt), Hungary (Magvetö), Republic of Moldova / Romanian rights (Cartier), Estonia (Hea Lugu), Latvia (Janis Roze), Lithuania (Kitos Knygos), Croatia (Edicije Božičević), Slovenia (Beletrina), Greece (Dioptra), North Macedonia (Matica), Belarus (Januškevič), Georgia (Intelekti), Israel (Hakkibutz Hameuchad)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Lindhardt & Ringhof / Saga Egmont)
Year of Publication: 2016
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2016
Why I Am Not Online
»It’s tough to see history being made.« Since the summer of 2014, Serhiy Zhadan notes down his experiences on his journeys into the eastern Ukrainian war zone. They are poetic...
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English world rights (selection; Yale UP), Finland (selection; Sammakko), Poland (selection; PIW), Hungary (selection; Jelenkor)
Year of Publication: 2014
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2014
Mesopotamia
The setting of Serhiy Zhadan’s latest book is the Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, here and now, a modern Babylon: a city in Mesopotamia, set at the riverbank of diverse languages and...
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English world rights (Yale UP), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Voland), Denmark (Jensen & Dalgaard), Sweden (Ersatz), Norway (Pax), Poland (Czarne), Hungary (Magvető), Latvia (Janis Roze), Belorussia (Januskevic), Georgia (Intelekti)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Schall & Wahn)
Year of Publication: 2010
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2010
Voroshilovgrad
In expressive prose, Zhadan delivers a road novel from the edge of Europe that dares to dream the dream of freedom in a completely new way: as the search for home in a world without...
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English world rights (Deep Vellum), Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Russia (Astrel), Portuguese rights (Elsinore), Arabic world rights (Here&There), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Voland), Netherlands (De Geus), Denmark (Jensen & Dalgaard), Sweden (Ersatz), Poland (Czarne), Poland Graphic Novel (Artur Wabik), Czech Republic (Argo), Bulgaria (Paradox), Republic of Moldova / Romanian rights (Cartier), Latvia (Janis Roze), Croatia (Edicije Božičević), Slovenia (Beletrina), Belarus (Logvinau), Georgia (Intelekti)
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Year of Publication: 2006
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2006
Democratic Youth Anthem
San Sanytsch, a wrestler with a highschool diploma, joins the »Boxers for Justice and Social Adaptation« who form a brigade of security guards controlling the markets near the tractor...
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Russia (Amphora), Poland (Czarne), Slovak Republic (Brak), Bulgaria (Paradox)
Year of Publication: 2004
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2004
Depeche Mode
»A poet and novelist whose work has been variously compared to Rimbaud, Charles Bukowski and Irvine Welsh, Serhiy Zhadan’s first novel Depeche Mode depicts Ukrainian youth during...
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Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Schall & Wahn)
Year of Publication: 2003
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2003
The History of Culture at the Beginning of the Century
Only in an environment in which anachronistic industrial plants sit in the landscape like dinosaurs, rotting away as the last witnesses of the grandiose Soviet experiment, could the...
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English world rights (selection; Yale UP), Russia (Agorisk), Finland (selection; Sammakko), Hungary (selection; Jelenkor)
Year of Publication: 2003
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2003
Big Mac
With the success of Democratic Youth Anthem, Serhiy Zhadan has established himself as the most original counter-voice to the poetic observations of Juri Andruchowytsch. In Big...
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