![]() ![]() Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2017. ![]() For years Alexievich studied, met and wrote down the stories of people who were directly affected by one of the biggest catastrophes of the previous century. Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl (Penguin Modern Classics). A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget. ![]() “After the Chernobyl we live in a different world”, says the author. The Chernobyl Prayer (1997) is one out of the five books united under the project named - Voices from Big Utopia, other are: War’s Unwomanly Face (1985), Boys in Zinc (1991), Enchanted with Death (1993-94) and Secondhand Time (2001). UMGC Europe Professor Jessica Stock invites you to join the UMGC. Apart from the Nobel Prize, she has been awarded a number of prestigious literary awards: the Triumph (1997, Russia), Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize (2001, Germany), National Book Critics Circle Award (2006, USA) and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (2013, Germany) among them.Īlexievich writes oral histories about important events from the Soviet and post-Soviet eras her characters are ordinary people, whose narratives she transforms into completely unique and impressive texts. UMGC Europe Book Club Discussion: Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl Prayer. Translated from Russian by Nino BekishviliĢ015 Nobel Prize winner in Literature Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian author, who writes in Russian and is widely translated and respected in numerous countries across the world. ![]()
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