Markiyan Kamysh (Ukrainian: Маркіян Камиш, born 19 October 1988) is a Ukrainian novelist.
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Born | (1988-10-19) 19 October 1988 (age 34) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | Ukrainian |
Genre | Ukrainian literature |
Notable works | Stalking the Atomic City. Life among the decadent and the depraved of Chornobyl. |
Markiyan Kamysh is the only person who represents the Chernobyl underground in literature.[1][2][3][4] Since 2010, he has been illegally exploring the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.[5][6][7][8] He is the son of a Chernobyl liquidator, nuclear physicist and design engineer of the Institute for Nuclear Research who died in 2003.[9] In 2005–2009, Markiyan studied at the Faculty of History of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, but dropped out shortly before receiving his bachelor's degree to devote himself to literature and illegal research in the Chernobyl zone. In 2010–2021, an illegal stalker of Chernobyl.[10][11][12]
Stalking the Atomic City: Life among the decadent and the depraved of Chornobyl is a novel about illegal piligrimage into the Chernobyl zone.[13] The book has been available online since spring 2014.[14] 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".[15]
In July of 2022, Kamysh volunteered for the Ukrainian military to fight against the Russian invasion.[16]
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