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Voroshilovgrad (Voroshylovhrad, Ukrainian: Ворошиловград) is a novel by Ukrainian author and social activist Serhiy Zhadan, published in 2010. In 2016, it was translated from Ukrainian into English by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Wheeler.
Jan 1, 2010 · The bleak industrial landscape of now-war-torn eastern Ukraine sets the stage for Voroshilovgrad, the Soviet era name of the Ukranian city of Luhansk, mixing magical realism and exhilarating road novel in poetic, powerful, and expressive prose.
Nov 28, 2016 · Serhiy Zhadan, whose most recent novel, “Voroshilovgrad,” is set in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, is conscious of the moral responsibility he bears for his words.
May 2, 2016 · The bleak industrial landscape of now-war-torn eastern Ukraine sets the stage for Voroshilovgrad, the Soviet era name of the Ukranian city of Luhansk, mixing magical realism and exhilarating road...
In Serhiy Zhadan’s recent novel Voroshylovhrad (2010), memory and emptiness form a duality of being and non-being, as represented by remembering and forgetting. This framework is proposed here as a metaphor for understanding some of the challenges facing Ukraine today.
May 24, 2016 · A homecoming is by turns magical and brutal in Zhadan's impressive picaresque novel. Herman Korolyov, an aimless 33-year-old urbanite, is summoned back to the rural town in Eastern Ukraine where he and his brother, Yura, grew up, and where Yura has been running a successful gas stationâ until his unexplained disappearance.
His 2010 novel Voroshylovhrad won him the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in Switzerland, BBC Ukrainian's "Book of the Decade" award and Brücke Berlin Prize. His selected poems Dynamo Kharkiv won Ukrainian "Book of the Year."
