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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Svetlana Alexievich

Japanese edition of Voices from Chernobyl (Full Edition): The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. Fascinating and heartbreaking interviews of the survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 by Russian journalist Svetlana Alexievich. Alexievich is the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Journalism & ReportageJournalism & Reportage · medium confidenceJournalism & Reportage81 signalsLlm Classifier: Journalism & Reportage -> Journalism & ReportageKeyword Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismTopic Classifier: Group Biography -> BiographyGroup BiographyMemoir & Personal History

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionMajor2005WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Chernobyl75%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.