Edition 2014

Laureate 2014
Serhiy Jadan

Vorochylovhrad, Folio, 2010

The 2014 Jan Michalski prize for literature was awarded to a young Ukrainian author, Serhiy Jadan. His first novel, translated into French under the title La route du Donbass (Vorochylovhrad), offers an offbeat epic of post-Soviet rootlessness.


The winner of the Jan Michalski Prize 2014, Serhiy Jadan receives an award of CHF 50,000.00 and a photographic work by Maurice Schobinger that has been chosen for him: Metalurg Kombinat Chelyabinsk.


photo © Tanya Davydenko

Finalists 2014
Mark Gevisser

Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg 
Granta Books, 2014

Serhiy Jadan

Vorochylovhrad
Folio, 2010

Marci Shore

The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Random House, 2014

Second selection of the Jury
Mark Gevisser

Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg 
Granta Books, 2014

Serhiy Jadan

Vorochylovhrad
Folio, 2010

Marci Shore

The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Random House, 2014

Rana Mitter

China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival
Allen Lane, 2013

Jaume Cabré

Confiteor
Actes Sud, 2013

First selection of the Jury
Mark Gevisser

Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg 
Granta Books, 2014

Serhiy Jadan

Vorochylovhrad
Folio, 2010

Marci Shore

The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Random House, 2014

Rana Mitter

China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival
Allen Lane, 2013

Jaume Cabré

Confiteor
Actes Sud, 2013

Raymond Bock

Atavismes
Boréal, 2013

Camille de Toledo

Oublier, trahir puis disparaître
Seuil, 2014

Fanny Howe

Second Childhood
Graywolf Press, 2014

Paul Harding

Enon
Random House, 2013

Wojciech Nowicki

Salki
Czarne, 2013

Dragan Velikic

Bonavia
Hanser Berlin, 2014

Najem Wali

Engel des Südens
Carl Hanser Verlag, 2011