Most of us have forgotten Chernobyl , which is a shame. It isn't an easy read, but it feels …

Svetlana Alexievich, sitio web de la autora. Voices From Chernobyl, by Svetlana Alexievich is on a list of the 100 most important books of the 2000s. On April 26, 1986, the most noticeably awful atomic reactor accident in history happened in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three-quarters of Europe. 'Voices from Chernobyl' by Svetlana Alexievich is a heartbreaking, poetic, haunting, thought-provoking and ultimately beautiful account drawn from the voices of people who survived the Chernobyl disaster. But people don’t understand freedom’ Shaun Walker Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to show individual accounts of the catastrophe.

Svetlana Alexievich was born in the Ukraine and studied journalism at the University of Minsk.

100 Best Books of the 21st Century: Interview Svetlana Alexievich: ‘After communism we thought everything would be fine. 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." Svetlana Alexievich, (born May 31, 1948, Stanislav, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine]), Belarusian journalist and prose writer, a Russian-language author of meticulously crafted works of depth and introspection that provided a compelling and uncompromising portrayal of the social and political upheaval within the Soviet Union from the postwar era to the fall of communism. Voices from Chernobyl is the …

YOU ARE READING. Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. I tried this and that and finally I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. Voices from Chernobyl is a documentary collection, dozens of those affected by the nuclear reactor disaster in Chernobyl in 1986 recounting in their own words memories of the event and its aftermath, as well as their current situations. In order to give a voice to their experiences, Svetlana Alexievich--a journalist by trade--interviewed hundreds of people who had been affected by the meltdown. Svetlana Alexievich was born in the Ukraine and studied journalism at the University of Minsk. The book, by this year’s Nobelist – leaves radiation burns on the brain.” Interviews with teachers, hunters, soldiers, clean-up workers, medics, a cameraman, a physicist and children provide diverse experiences from the days immediately following the disaster to the months and even years later when people were still getting sick.

'Voices from Chernobyl' by Svetlana Alexievich is a heartbreaking, poetic, haunting, thought-provoking and ultimately beautiful account drawn from the voices of people who survived the Chernobyl disaster. "Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl (Dalkey Archive) is a collage of oral testimony that turns into the psycho¬biography of a nation not shown on any map: the poisoned territory where live Belarusians, Ukrainians and Russians who are forever changed by the catastophe.