Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

Name: Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
ISBN: 9780670025367

by Susan Southard

Dayton Literary · 2016 · Winner

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VikingJuly 28, 2015Nonfiction HistoryISBN 9780670025367

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Nonfiction	2016	Winner	“Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction in 2016.”

About This Book

A harrowing and meticulously researched account of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945 and its effects on five survivors across the remainder of their lives. Drawing on interviews conducted in Japanese over a decade, Susan Southard weaves individual stories with the history of the bomb's creation and the politics of nuclear memory in Japan and America. Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction.

About the Author

Susan SouthardAmerican

Susan Southard is an American author and journalist. Her book Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (2015) is an account of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945 and its multi-decade aftermath, following five hibakusha—atomic bomb survivors—through the remainder of their lives. Southard spent more than a decade researching and writing the book, learning Japanese, and conducting interviews in Japan. Read more →