Voices from Chernobyl

Author Svetlana Alexievich

Чернобыльская молитва

Хроника будущего, The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Author	Svetlana Aleksievich
Country	Belarus
Language	Russian
Subject	Chernobyl disaster
Genre	non-fiction
Published	1997
Preceded by	Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from a Forgotten War[*]
Followed by	Second-Hand Time
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Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future (UK title) / Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (US title) is a book by Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich. Alexievich was a journalist living in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in 1986 at the time of the Chernobyl disaster. (At the time Belarus was part of the Soviet Union as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.)

Alexievich, then in her 30s, interviewed more than 500 eyewitnesses, including firefighters, liquidators (members of the cleanup team), politicians, physicians, physicists and ordinary citizens over a period of 10 years. The book relates the psychological and personal tragedy of the Chernobyl accident, and explores the experiences of individuals and how the disaster affected their lives.

Chernobyl Prayer was first published in Russian in 1997 as Чернобыльская молитва and a revised, updated edition came out in 2013. The American translation was awarded the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction.

See also

• List of books about nuclear issues
• List of Chernobyl-related articles
• The Truth About Chernobyl
• Chernobyl disaster