Chernobyl. A chronicle of the future
Chernobyl. A Chronicle of the Future is a book by Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich . Alexievich lived in 1986 at the time of the Chernobyl disaster as a journalist in Minsk , the capital of Belarus. (At that time Belarus was part of the Soviet Union as the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic .)
Alexievich interviewed more than 500 eyewitnesses over a period of 10 years, including firefighters, liquidators (members of the cleanup team), politicians, doctors, physicists and ordinary citizens. The book references the psychological and personal tragedy of the Chernobyl accident, describes the experiences of individuals and how the disaster affected their lives.
Chernobyl. A Chronicle of the Future was first published in 1997 in Russian under the title Чернобыльская молитва in the journal Druzhba narodow (German: "Friendship of the Peoples"); A revised, updated edition was published in 2013. The American translation won the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction.
The book was first published in German in 1997, translated by Ingeborg Kolinko.
In 2016, the Luxembourg director Pol Cruchten made a documentary based on the book.
Book editions in German
- Chernobyl. A chronicle of the future . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-8270-0215-0 .
- Chernobyl. A chronicle of the future . Structure paperback, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7466-7023-3 .
- Chernobyl. A chronicle of the future . Berliner Taschenbuch, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8333-0357-3 .
- Chernobyl. A chronicle of the future . Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-30625-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ UK edition: Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future , translated by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait (Penguin Modern Classics, 2016; ISBN 978-0-241-27053-0 )
- ↑ US edition: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster, translated by Keith Gessen (Dalkey Archive Press, 2005; ISBN 1-56478-401-0 )
- ↑ http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1834739-un-fragmento-de-la-plegaria-de-chernobyl-cronica-del-futuro-de-svetlana-alexievich
- ^ Robert Matthews: Book Reviews . In: Journal of Nuclear Medicine . tape 47 , no. 8 , August 1, 2006, ISSN 0161-5505 , p. 1389-1390 ( snmjournals.org [accessed October 12, 2017]).
- ↑ Svetlana Alexievich: Чернобыльская молитва. Хроника будущего . In: Дружба народов . No. 1 , 1997, ISSN 0012-6756 ( russ.ru ).
- ↑ Чернобыльская молитва . Publishing house "Время" (Vremja), Moscow 2013, ISBN 978-5-9691157-4-3 (Russian, 304 pages).
- ^ All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists. In: bookcritics.org/. National Book Critics Circle, accessed October 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Chernobyl: a chronicle of the future / Swetlana Alexijewitsch. From the Russ. by Ingeborg Kolinko. In: Catalog of the German National Library. German National Library, accessed on October 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Голоса из Чернобыля. La supplication. In: coolconnections.ru. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Olga Solonar: Чернобыльская молитва: фильм по книге Светланы Алексиевич. In: dw.com. April 5, 2016, Retrieved October 12, 2017 (Russian).
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