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Galina Ackerman or usually Galia Ackerman (Russian: Галя Аккерман) (born 1948) is a French-Russian writer, historian, journalist, translator, researcher at the University of Caen, specializing on Ukraine and Post-Soviet states. She was also a translator for slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.[1][2][3]

Galia Ackerman
Галя Аккерман
Born	1948 (age 73–74)
Education	University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Writing career
Occupation	Writer translator researcher
Language	French, Russian
Genre	documentary, essay, research, Russian documentary translation
Notable works	(In French) Traverser Tchernobyl Le régiment immortel; la guerre sacrée de Poutine

Biography

Galia Ackerman was born in 1948 in a Russian Jewish family. She is the holder of a doctorate in history at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and associate researcher at the University of Caen.[4]

Crossing Chernobyl

Galia Ackerman was once offered to translate in French a documentary 'Chernobyl Prayer' by Svetlana Alexievich, story about catastrophe of Soviet nuclear plant Chernobyl, and she did this in 1998. While working on the translation, she traveled in the poisoned territories, that had called 'Zone' (short for Chernobyl Exclusion Zone), in Belarus, and interviewed local well-known personalities about the nuclear catastrophe.

When she published her gathered stories about 'Zone', the Center of Modern Art of Barcelona asked her in 2003 prepare an exhibition about 'Zone'. To prepare the materials for the Center of Modern Art, Galia Ackerman traveled from 2003 to 2006 in Ukraine. She co-worked with a museum about the catastrophe in Kyiv, met with local people, and gathered various artefacts like special clothes of recovery workers, various Geiger counters. As result, she talked with many local people, gathered much information, and wrote her first documentary in 2006 about 'Zone', but, as she said, it was just a pure history of the catastrophe.

Since then, Galia Ackerman used to travel in Ukraine, visited 'Zone', met local people and became a friend with Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko, who also often visited Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. So she decided to write a new story entitled 'Crossing Chernobyl' to tell her 20 year-long experience about Chernobyl, thoughts, mental pictures of Chernobyl. The book was published in France.[5]

Selected bibliography

Books

• French: Traverser Tchernobyl; Premier Parallèle, 2016 (Crossing Chernobyl; Premier Parallèle, 2016)
• French: Le régiment immortel; la guerre sacrée de Poutine; Premier Parallèle, 2019 (The Immortal Regiment; The Sacred War of Putin; Premier Parallèle, 2019)[6]

References

External links

• YouTube video of Galia Ackerman interview for France 24 English on August 28, 2007, towards investigation in murder of Anna Politkovskaya, FRANCE24-EN; Top Story; Who killed Anna Politkovskaya?

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