Midnight in Chernobyl

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Midnight in Chernobyl
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Author Adam Higginbotham
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication date
2019

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (2019) by Adam Higginbotham is a history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986. It won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2020. Higginbotham spent more than a decade interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing documents from the disaster, including some that were recently declassified. [1] Higginbotham considers it the first English-language account that is close to the truth. [1]

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 Dawn Stover (May 5, 2019). "The human drama of Chernobyl". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ Jennifer Szalai (February 6, 2019). "An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl". The New York Times. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  3. ↑ Associated Press (March 24, 2020). "Valeria Luiselli's 'Lost Children Archive' wins Folio Prize". The San Diego Union-Tribune . Archived from the original on December 26, 2023. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
  4. ↑ Schaub, Michael (January 22, 2020). "Luiselli, Higginbotham Win ALA's Carnegie Medals". Kirkus Reviews . Archived from the original on December 26, 2023. Retrieved December 26, 2023.


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