The laureate of 2021 Drahoman Prize announced

Drahoman Prize 2021 was awarded to the Polish-Ukrainian translator Bohdan Zadura. This was announced during live stream of the ceremony on Ukrainian Book Institute’s Facebook page.

Bohdan Zadura is a writer, literary critic and Polish-Ukrainian translator. He has written 25 poetry books and a dozen volumes of essays and prose. He’s been nominated for the Drahoman Prze three times with the following books:

• Vasyl Makhno. Eternity Calendar (Wasyl Machno. Kalendarz wieczności). Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 2021;
• Yuri Vynnychuk. Lutecia (Jurij Wynnyczuk. Lutecja). Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Warstwy, 2021. The applicants: Warsztaty Kultury w Lublinie, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Wrocławski Dom Literatury.

At the award ceremony Zadura noted that in 2022 there have been released 9 Ukrainian books in Poland translated by him and 4 more will be released by the end of the year.

This year it was the first time the ceremony took place abroad. It was housed at Literaturhaus Berlin — first literature house in Germany, cultural and educational institution promoting world literature, making it accessible by general public via various formats.

Apart from it, Dutch-Ukrainian translator Tobias Wals received Special Award of the Chapter “for the filigree translation of the classics of Ukrainian literary modernism and contribution to the promotion of Ukrainian literature in Europe”.

The first laureate of the Drahomán Prize, Claudia Dathe, the Ukrainian writer Yurii Andrukhovych and the representative of Ukrainische Botschaft in Berlin also took part in the ceremony.

Drahoman Prize was established by the Ukrainian Institue, Ukrainian PEN and Ukrainian Book Institute in 2020 in order to support and ccelebrated the translators from Ukrainian into the languages of the world.

As is known that Alessandro Achilli, Iryna Dmytryshyn and Bohdan Zadura were shortlisted for the prize of 2021.

The long list of the Drahomaan Prize featured Natalka Babina, Maria Weissenböck, Aliona Bivolaru and others.