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Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich

Belarusianb. 1948Fiction

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→

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