The Ukrainian writer, musician and translator Serhij Zhadan received this award with great justification. At the same time, it has a bitter aftertaste. It has the word “Peace Prize” in its title and is awarded in times of war. Serhiy Zhadan, who was born in 1974 in Starobilsk in the Luhansk region northeast of Donetsk and lives in Kharkiv, is a “personality who has made an outstanding contribution to the realization of the idea of peace, primarily through her work in the fields of literature, science and art.” But for months, since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the images and texts, which he sends out into the world on Twitter, News from the war zone. He is a Peace Prize laureate demanding heavy weapons for his country.
Peace Prize in Wartime: Serhiy Zhadan, the 2022 Prizewinner. – Culture
