Photo by Marie Söderberg
Born in 1973.
Poet, translator, essayist. Author of ten books of “adult” poetry and one book of poems for children.
Winner of the Polish PEN Club Prize for translations of Polish poetry and the Carlos Sherman Prize for translations of poems by Charles Baudelaire; winner of the Book of the Year award for the collection “Natatki tatki” (“Notes of the Father”) and the Natallia Arsennieva Prize for the book of poems “Shkola travy” (“School of Grass”).
Translates poetry from French, Polish, English, Ukrainian, Russian and other languages. Hadanovich’s poems have been translated into two dozen languages.
Andrej Khadanovič’s publications in “TAŬBIN“:
A poem that can’t be written
Poems by Andrej Khadanovich
White-red-white flag
Poem by Maria Malinovskaya translated by Andrej Khadanovich
Pilgrims
Poems by Josef Brodsky translated by Andrej Khadanovich
Moyshe Kulbak. From “Rajsn”
Poem by Moyshe Kulbak translated by Andrej Khadanovich and Siarhej Shupa
Fights without rules
Ukrainian poetry in translations by Andrej Khadanovich
Mikola Varab’eu. It’s so hard to be a moth
Poems by Ukrainian poet Mykola Vorobjov translated by Andrej Khadanovich
To become the whole Ukraine
Poems by The people of planet Earth
Snatched core of the heart
Translations of Ukrainian poets made by Andrej Khadanovich
Hands smell like the war
Poems by Anatol Dnistravy translated by Andrej Khadanovich
They think they can kill us
Translations of Ukrainian poetry made by Andrej Khadanovich
The dead form the Life Line
Translations of Ukrainian poetry made by Andrej Khadanovich
You wake up and face the war
Translations of Ukrainian poetry made by Andrej Khadanovich
And where from to get air in the lungs?
Translations of Ukrainian poetry made by Andrej Khadanovich
It doesn’t feel like summer. It feels like a war.
Translations of Ukrainian poetry made by Andrej Khadanovich
…And weapons, which are not enough, and a little of indomitable us
Translations of Ukrainian poetry made by Andrej Khadanovich
For you, who lost home, but didn’t lose a heart
Translations of Ukrainian poetry made by Andrej Khadanovich
While they are waging war
Translations of Ukrainian poetry made by Andrej Khadanovich
Be born, oh Lord, be born
Translations of Ukrainian poetry made by Andrej Khadanovich
To speak on behalf of those who remained alive
Translations of Ukrainian poetry made by Andrej Khadanovich
The ground, the sky and the face between them
Poems by Wojciech Bonowicz translated by Andrej Khadanovich
Poems from “Mesopotamia”
Poems by Serhiy Zhadan translated by Andrej Khadanovich
When you know where to escape, you are already not free
Poems by Lukash Yarash translated by Andrej Khadanovich
How this world crowns me
Translation of poems by the Jewish poet Moyshe Kulbak
Paused by God
Poems by Andrej Khadanovich
Way of the bees
Poetry by Krystyna Dąbrowska
“… you were great at pretending to be happy”
Translations of modern Lithuanian poetry
Between love and hate we are going straight
Poems by Ukrainian poet Ostap Slyvinski in Belarusian translations
To believe in what does not exist — because everything exists
Translations of the poems by modern Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan
Revolt
Translations of the poems by modern Polish poet Anna Świrszczyńska
Fata Morgana
Translations of the poems by Polish poet Kanstanty Ildefans Halchynski