Holly Morris: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.
Holly Morris: Porquê ficar em Chernobyl? Porque é o seu lar.
Holly Morris tells the stories of women around the world through documentary, television, print and the web. Full bio
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mais frenético ele ficava
Meu Deus.
durante 11 dias,
com guardas de fronteira.
o medidor Geiger na mão, a dar sinal,
que desafiou as autoridades,
dentro da zona.
pela segunda vez:
a um solo tão mortal?
para os ignorar, ou ambos?
vilas-fantasma disseminadas,
misteriosamente charmosas, bucólicas,
A fome, sim."
na década de 30, o Holodomor,
para trabalhos forçados.
sob o controlo soviético,
doentes e morrer em breve,
de uma tarde de Primavera.
estragar as suas batatas,
um pouco de Vodka caseira.
doeriam, e doem. E daí?"
e pouco entendido, a radiação.
com Chernobyl,
chega a dezenas de milhares.
cancro da tiróide
os refugiados de Chernobyl
em qualquer lugar:
com o meu portátil
Eu nunca me irei embora."
mas a verdade parece ser
às suas casas
os seus compatriotas
deixarão de existir,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Holly Morris - Explorer and filmmakerHolly Morris tells the stories of women around the world through documentary, television, print and the web.
Why you should listen
Holly Morris is a director, producer, writer and storyteller whose work spans media and continents. She is the author of Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine (Random House) and writer/director and executuve producer of its companion PBS documentary series, "Adventure Divas". A former National Geographic Adventure columnist and widely anthologized essayist, Morris is also a regular contributor to The New York Times, among other publications. She presents the PBS televisin series "Globe Trekker," and "Treks in a Wild World," and also hosted "Outdoor Investigations" -- a series in which she investigates the scientific side of today's environmental and natural world mysteries.
Morris has reported on the illegal caviar trade from Iran's Caspian Sea, sex trafficking from the brothels of India, and the global diaspora of Black Panthers from Cuba. Whether she's exploring underground Soviet missile silos, or the ship breaking yards of Bangladesh, Morris goes to the grassroots to tell a global story.
Her new film, The Babushkas of Chernobyl is about a surprising group of survivors living in the shadow of Chernobyl. Based on her award-winning essay of the same name (also published as "Ukraine: A Country of Women"), it won the Meredith Editorial Excellence Award, was reprinted in London's Daily Telegraph, and The Week and was selected for the book The Best Travel Writing (2012). The film, which has won numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Film Festival Jury Award for Directing, is being widely released in Spring 2016 for the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
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