No To Fear: Anna Politkovskaya by Dominique Conil

No To Fear: Anna Politkovskaya by Dominique Conil

The deeply researched and partly imagined story of the fearless, internationally recognized journalist who was assassinated for believing that 'words can save lives.'
 
 

Say No to Fear, part of the They Said No series of histories, tells the story of Anna Politkovskaya's courageous life narrated from the perspective of her longtime mentor and friend, the dissident writer Vassily Pachoutinsev. From their first meeting when she was a young literature student writing about poet Marina Tsvetaeva to her rise as an internationally recognized journalist, through Vassily we see Anna develop from junior reporter, to covering social issues after the fall of the Soviet Union, to becoming a fearless defender of human rights. Throughout the author brings the history to life by including key conversations that might have happened between them at pivotal moments in Politkovskaya's life.
      A scathing critic of the second Chechen war, Politkovskaya published most of her political work while working at the Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper at the forefront of the fight for free expression in Russia. For their outspokenness several members of its staff were murdered, presumably silenced by Russia's Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Even after a poisoning attack and a mock execution, Politkovskaya persisted, adamant in her fight for her children's and grandchildren's world, critiquing the situation in Chechnya and Putin until her assassination in 2006.
     The narrator, Pachoutinsev, explains how her legacy lives on, inspiring those in pursuit of justice and the truth both in Russia and abroad.

Strayer, Alison L.: - Alison Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator whose work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, and the Prix litteraire France-Quebec. She currently resides in Paris.

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ISBN 13	9781644211304
ISBN 10	1644211300
Title	No To Fear: Anna Politkovskaya
Author	Dominique Conil
Series	They Said No Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Year published	2022-09-27
Number of pages	64
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.