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Voices from Chernobyl

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Main Author: Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-
Other Authors: Gessen, Keith
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: Normal : Dalkey Archive Press, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident > Byelarus > Personal Narratives.
Radiation Injuries > Byelarus > Personal Narratives.
Accidents, Radiation > Byelarus > Personal Narratives.
Survivors > Byelarus > Personal Narratives.
Personal narratives.
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Item Description:"Lannan selections"--P. [241].
"First published in Russian as Tchernobylskaia Molitva by Editions Ostojie, 1997"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:x, 240, [1] p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:1564784010
1564783898 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:Svetlana Alexievich was born in the Ukraine and studied journalism at the University of Minsk. Her books, including Voices from Chernobyl , document the emotional history of Soviet and post-Soviet life through interviews. Alexievich has received numerous awards for her writing, including a prize from the Swedish PEN Institute for "courage and dignity as a writer." She was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2015 "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."

Translator Keith Gessen was born in Russia and educated at Harvard. He is a founding editor of n+1 and has written about literature and culture for Dissent , The Nation , The New Yorker , and The New York Review of Books . He is the author of the novel A Terrible Country and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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