Markiyan Kamysh Explained

Markiyan Kamysh
Birth Date:	19 October 1988
Birth Place:	Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation:	Novelist
Genre:	Ukrainian literature
Notableworks:	Stalking the Atomic City: Life among the decadent and the depraved of Chornobyl
Language:	Ukrainian

Markiyan Kamysh (Ukrainian: Маркіян Камиш, born 19 October 1988) is a Ukrainian novelist.

Biography

Kamysh is the only person who represents the Chernobyl underground in literature.^[1] His father was a Chernobyl liquidator.^[2] From 2005-2009, Kamysh studied history at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. From 2010–2021, he was an illegal stalker of multiple areas in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, including Pripyat, smaller surrounding villages, and the power plant itself.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]} In 2022, after the Russian invasion began, he joined the Ukrainian military.^[7]

Stalking the Atomic City

Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl is a novel written by Kamysh about his experiences illegally exploring the exclusion zone.^[8] The book has been available online since the spring of 2014.^[9] TOP10 books of 2019 according to La Repubblica as one of the "Constellations of the ten books that best reflect the spirit of the times".^[10] The Guardian called it a “remarkable book”.^[11]

External links

• The Guardian review
• The Telegraph review
• The Times Review
• Kirkus Review
• Publishers Weekly review
• Ukrainian Chornobyl
• The Irish Independent review
• la Repubblica review (In Italian)
• The Wall Street Journal review
• Interview about Pripyat and illegal trips
• Duckweed
• le Nouvel Obs review (In French)
• Les Inrocks review (In French)
• Il Manifesto review (In Italian)

Notes and References

1. News: Jordison . Sam . 2022-07-09 . Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh review – in search of meaning in Chornobyl’s forbidden wasteland . 2024-06-15 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
2. Web site: Маркіян Камиш, письменник . 2022-03-10 . www.ukrinform.ua . uk.
3. Web site: 25 April 2019 . "Чорнобильська зона - моє призначення" - письменник Маркіян Камиш . 2019-07-26 . Gazeta.ua . uk.
4. Web site: Маркіян Камиш: Немає ніякої Зони. Зона в наших головах - 5 Січня 2016 - Статті Litcentr. 2021-06-01. litcentr.in.ua.
5. Web site: "La zone interdite de Tchernobyl est l'endroit le plus exotique sur Terre!". 2021-06-01. www.20minutes.fr. 25 April 2016 . fr.
6. Web site: 2016-04-19. "Чому я ходжу в Чорнобильську зону" - розповідь нелегала. 2021-06-01. BBC News Україна. uk.
7. Web site: 2022-07-09 . Markiyan Kamysh on Instagram: "Пішов добровольцем в ЗСУ. Трохи обжився і звик. Було багато прильотів по учебці. Потім я довго витрушував з чуба землю, що на мене з неба лягла. Еволюціонував від «ааа, прильот!» до «як в'їбе – почуєм» за день. Живу в лісі, сплю в ямі, багато вчуся. Часу на онлайн зовсім нема. Вірю в Україну, перемогу, нас. Прорвемось." . 2022-07-30 . Instagram . uk.
8. Web site: Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh. 2021-08-19. Penguin Random House Canada. English.
9. Web site: 2014-04-29. 'Оформляндія' Маркіян Камиш. 2021-10-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20140429233828/http://markian.info/?page_id=338. 2014-04-29.
10. Web site: 2019-12-28 . I libri più belli dell'anno ve li consiglia Robinson . 2020-05-30 . la Repubblica . it.
11. News: Jordison . Sam . 2022-07-09 . Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh review – in search of meaning in Chornobyl's forbidden wasteland . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-09-13 . 0261-3077.