Ukrainian writer won the prestigious Jan Michalski Prize

BERNE. Sergey Zhadan, a well-known writer from Ukraine, recently received one of the most prestigious awards in the field of literature, the award ceremony was held in the capital of Switzerland, the city of Bern.

At the ceremony, the novel by Sergei Zhadan “Voroshilovgrad” was awarded a special prize of an international company of writers, and the author, in turn, received one of the most prestigious prizes in Switzerland in the field of literature - Jan Michalski Prize.

Foreign news online portals also report that the Ukrainian writer, along with the prize, also received a cash award of 50 thousand Swiss francs for “an unusual epos of post-Soviet restlessness”.

Recall that the International Swiss Prize Jan Michalski Prize in 2004 founded the eponymous cultural fund. The purpose of this event is to promote multiculturalism and support the work of writers. Earlier, the winners of this award were the Hungarian author George Dragoman with his novel The White King, the Iranian writer Mahmoud Dovlatabadi with his book Colonel, as well as the Englishwoman Julia Lovell with her work Opium Works: Drugs, Dreams and the Formation of the Chinese State.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru