The writer will donate the monetary reward to volunteer needs.
Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan won the Freedom Prize from the Frank Schirmacher Foundation, the legendary publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to his Facebook page, this year's Freedom Prize is being awarded for the first time along with the foundation's traditional prize.
Zhadan said he would donate 10,000 Swiss francs (about 318,000 hryvnias) to volunteer. .
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“Thank you to the organizers for this gesture of support for Ukraine – for us today the attention and support of the world is really important,” he said. writer.
The organizers of the award noted that the Freedom Prize is awarded to “persons who seek enlightened consciousness and creative freedom of the individual.”
