Göran Blix of Princeton University will speak about Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl at 6 p.m., Monday, Dec. 5, in 103 Gore Hall on the University of Delaware’s Newark campus.

The talk, “At War with the Elements: Imagination and Radiation in Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl,” is free and open to the public.

Blix, an associate professor in Princeton’s Department of French and Italian, studies the tradition of 19th-century French prose writing in the context of major historical and political developments. His interests include romanticism, realism, literary aesthetics, the historical imagination and the relationship between democracy and literature.

His talk at UD, delivered 30 years after the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl in what is now Ukraine, is expected to touch upon the environmental, political and even aesthetic implications of nuclear disaster.

Alexievich has worked as a journalist in Belarus and writes “documentary novels” depicting life in the Soviet Union and since its breakup through the experience of individuals. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015.

Blix’s talk is sponsored by the University Honors Program, Delaware Environmental Institute, Center for Global and Area Studies and Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.