The award ceremony will take place in Gdańsk (Poland) in cooperation with the project Wolne Słowo Gdańsk Miasto Literatury and the College of Eastern Europe (Wroclaw).

The winner will be selected by the Chapter of the Prize from among three finalists:

• Mark Andryczyk (USA) is a translator from Ukrainian into English. Nominated by Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University with a translation of the novel written by Volodymyr Rafeyenko Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022). He has administered the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University and has taught Ukrainian literature at its Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures since 2007. Since 2008 he has organized the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series, which has brought leading Ukrainian literary figures to audiences in North America. 
• Iryna Dmytrychyn (France) is a translator from Ukrainian into French. Nominated by the publishing house Les Édition Noir sur Blanc with a translation of the novel written by Serhiy Zhadan The Orphanage (Les Édition Noir sur Blanc, 2022). Author of numerous publications on Ukrainian literature and history. She is responsible for Ukrainian studies at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris. 
• Rayna Kamberova (Bulgaria) is a translator from Ukrainian into Bulgarian. Nominated by the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Bulgaria with a translation of the novel written by Lyubko Deresh Cult (Ergo, 2021). Since 2001, she has been teaching Ukrainian at Sofia University. Her scientific interests are concentrated in the field of lexicography and lexicology, pragmatics, theory and practice of translation, semantics, history of Ukrainian-Bulgarian relations. She translates Ukrainian fiction and publicism. 

Giovanna Brogi (Italy), a translator from Ukrainian into Italian and a researcher of Central and Eastern European literature, will become a holder of the Special Award “for the special contribution to the translation and promotion of Ukrainian literature, as well as to the development of Ukrainian studies in Italy”. Giovanna Broggi used to be a professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Urbino (1972-1994) and the University of Milan (1994-2014). Her interests include the Renaissance and Baroque literature of Central and Eastern Europe, plurilingualism, and Ukrainian literature of the pre-modern era and the 19th century. She is currently the President of the Italian Association of Ukrainian Studies (AISU).

With the support of our Polish partners, two events will take place on 26 September, before the ceremony: at 5 pm (Kyiv time) the conversation with the presence of the winner of the Drahoman Prize Bohdan Zadura, Ostap Sływynski – translator and poet, and Aleksandra Szymanska, who will talk about the Gdańsk project Found in Translation Award will be moderated by Anna Lazar – curator of the Free Word program Gdańsk City of Literature. The conversation will be held in Polish and translated to Ukrainian. At 6 pm a discussion with the finalists will be held in Ukrainian and translated to Polish. The events will be also broadcasted online, with more details to be announced shortly. 

The ceremony will be held in cooperation with the project Wolne Słowo Gdańsk Miasto Literatury and the College of Eastern Europe (Wroclaw) and will be broadcast online at 19.00 (Kyiv time).

The winner will receive a statuette made from a sketch by Ukrainian artist Anna Zvyagintseva, a cash prize of EUR 3,000, and additional opportunities for work and promotion of their work.

The 2021 Drahomán Prize award ceremony was held in Berlin in 2022 due to Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. Last year, the prize was awarded to Polish translator Bohdan Zadura for his translations of My Grandfather Danced Better Than Anyone by Kateryna Babkina, Eternal Calendar by Vasyl Makhno, and Lutetia by Yuriy Vynnychuk. For more information on the selection of this year’s nominees, please follow the link.

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