2019 Pushkin House Book Prize goes to Serhii Plokhy's ‘Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy’

Source: Meduza

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy has been named the winner of the 2019 Pushkin House Book Prize, which honors English-language nonfiction about the Russian-speaking world. Plokhy previously won the Pushkin Prize for The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, making him the first author to win the award twice. A £5,000 ($6,343) prize was awarded to Plokhy today in a London ceremony.

The following titles were also shortlisted for the award:

1983: The World at The Brink by Taylor Downing
The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Eleonory Gilburd
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaja, translated from German by Shelley Frisch

The Pushkin Prize jury’s recognition of Chernobyl, which undertakes a wide-ranging investigation into the 1986 nuclear disaster’s origin, containment, and consequences, coincides with a wave of public interest in the disaster sparked by a commercially unrelated HBO series also titled Chernobyl.

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2019 Pushkin House Book Prize goes to Serhii Plokhy's ‘Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy’

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