Markiyan Kamysh
Markiyan Kamysh (, born 19 October 1988) is a Ukrainian novelist. Biography. Markiyan Kamysh is the only person who represents the Chernobyl underground in literature. Since 2010, he has been illegally investigating the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. He is the son of a Chernobyl liquidator, nuclear physicist and design engineer of the Institute for Nuclear Research who died in 2003. In 2005–2009, Markian 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, made a lot of expeditions for barbed wire, living in the Zone for more than a year (including several months - in the abandoned city of Pripyat). Section::::"Stalking the Atomic City". "Stalking the Atomic City: Life among the decadent and the depraved of Chornobyl" is a novel about illegal explorers of the Chernobyl zone. The book has been available online since spring 2014. After critical acclaim in Ukraine, the book was published in France and Italy. Le Nouvel Observateur has called the novel a "stunning book". "Monaco Hebdo" magazine has included it in the list  of choices of the month. TOP5 books about Chernobyl from "Esquire Italia" and 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". In a separate review "La Repubblica" called Kamysh a "strong character". Corriere della Sera: "Thanks to a style balanced between the linguistic ecstasy of a desperate journey, between the destruction of the relics of a historical tragedy and the cruel and sentimental minimalism of a terrible reality, Kamysh writes a book that can shake us in the face of human pain and  the pain of nature". The Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov said about this text: "The book "Stalking the Atomic City (La Zone)" by Markian Kamysh is definitely double discovery for any reader! The first discovery is the author himself with his vivid and very dynamic narrative, and the other one – the content of the book that will open for you completely unknown reality – life in Chernobyl zone behind the barbed wire, life described by those who made this zone their secret and illegal playground. Markian Kamysh is one of them and that's why the book is also an honest first -hand experience!" Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, director of the film "The Tribe", called "A Stroll to the Zone" "a new breath and new voice in Ukrainian literature".