Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian author and Nobel laureate who has created a unique form of documentary prose fiction compiled from hundreds of testimonies. Voices from Chernobyl, The Unwomanly Face of War, and Secondhand Time are her masterworks.
Works
- Voices from ChernobylOral histories of Chernobyl disaster survivors and affected residents
- The Unwomanly Face of WarTestimonies of Soviet women combatants in World War II
- Secondhand TimeOral history documenting post-Soviet life and collapse of communism
- Boys in ZincAccounts of Soviet soldiers in the Afghan War from body bags
- Last WitnessesTestimonies from survivors of Nazi occupation and World War II