Polish Academy of Sciences nominated Ukrainian writer, poet and social activist Sergei Zhadan for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This is stated on the website of the Committee of Literary Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

" His voice as a poet has been of particular importance for Ukrainians for many years.. Free Ukraine largely speaks and thinks in the words of Zhadan, listens to them attentively. Today the poet is in his Kharkov. And he fights,"