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Voices from Chernobyl / Svetlana Alexievich ; translation and preface by Keith Gessen.

by Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-

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Dalkey Archive Press, 2005.

363.1799094776 A366v

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Social aspects.

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Environmental aspects.

9781628973303 (pbk.)

x, 240, [1] p. ; 23 cm.

"Lannan selections"--P. [241].

"Lannan Foundation located in Santa Fe, New Mexico."--P. [241].

"First published in Russian as Tchernobylskaia Molitva by Editions Ostojie, 1997"--T.p. verso.

Svetlana Alexievich was born in the Ukraine and studied journalism at the Universityof Minsk. Her books, including Voices from Chernobyl, document the emotional history 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.

Translation of: Tchernobylskaïa molitva, c2005.

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