A novel imagines Anna Politkovskaïa's voice, twenty years after her murder
Jean-François Bouthors, who knew the Russian journalist, publishes "La Vengeance d'Anna P.", a work of fiction that places her inside the mind of a Kremlin propagandist.
Anna Politkovskaïa, the Russian journalist known for her reporting on the war in Chechnya and on abuses of power under Vladimir Putin, was assassinated on October 7, 2006. Twenty years to the day, a novel by Jean-François Bouthors, who knew her, gives her a posthumous voice again, according to Le Monde.
The book, "La Vengeance d'Anna P.", appears on October 8. According to Le Monde, it is conceived as a tribute in which fiction and reality intertwine: the murdered journalist is imagined entering the mind of a Kremlin propagandist.
The source material gives no further detail on plot, publisher or length. Le Monde presents the book as both a literary gesture and an act of remembrance, marking two decades since a killing that remains, for many readers of Russian affairs, emblematic of the risks taken by independent journalists under the current Russian government.
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