Voices from Chernobyl

Russian is the true first (Ostozhye, Moscow, 1997). The census claim that Dalkey Archive 2005 is the first English is WRONG: Aurum Press, London, 1999 (Bouis) precedes it by six years, so the UK, not the US, holds the first in English. The Dalkey Archive Press edition of 2005 — Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, a new translation by Keith Gessen, ISBN 1-56478-401-0, hardcover in jacket — is a first thus, not a first in English; it is nonetheless the widely collected American book (National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction, 2005) and the copy most associated with the 2015 Nobel. Both the Aurum 1999 and the Dalkey 2005 are collected, and dealers frequently mis-describe the Dalkey as 'First English Edition, First Printing'.