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Galia Ackerman

Galia Ackerman is a French-Russian writer, historian, journalist and translator who specializes in Ukraine and the post-Soviet states.

born 1948Research on Ukraine and post-Soviet statesWriting about ChernobylTranslating Anna Politkovskaya

Born: 24 June 1948, Moscow
Occupation: journalist, writer, historian, translator
Education: University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Philological Faculty of Moscow State University

Galia Ackerman was born in 1948 in Moscow

Galia Ackerman was born in Moscow in 1948 to a Russian Jewish family.

She earned a doctorate in history from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She became an associate researcher at the University of Caen.

In 1998 she translated Svetlana Alexievich's "Chernobyl Prayer" into French and traveled in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Belarus. In 2003 the Center of Modern Art of Barcelona asked her to prepare an exhibition on the Zone. From 2003 to 2006 she traveled in Ukraine, worked with a museum in Kyiv and collected artifacts.

In 2006 she wrote her first documentary work on the Zone. She later befriended the Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko and wrote "Crossing Chernobyl," published in France. She also worked as a translator for the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.