Svetlana Alexievich

Voices from Chernobyl

The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Übersetzer: Gessen, Keith

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781564784018
• ISBN-10: 1564784010
• Artikelnr.: 21763901

Autorenporträt

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 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.