Markiyan Kamysh

Markiyan Kamysh is a Ukrainian writer who represents the Chornobyl underground in literature. Since 2010, he has illegally explored the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. He is the son of a Chornobyl liquidator, nuclear physicist, and design engineer of the Institute for Nuclear Research in Kyiv who died in 2003. Stalking the Atomic City is his first book, which was translated in multiple languages and published to great acclaim. He lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.