Svetlana Alexievich
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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic wri
Alexievich in 2024
Alexievich as artist-in-residence at Bavarian Villa Waldberta in the 1990s
Alexievich in 2013
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets is a 2013 book by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. An oral history of the Soviet Union and its end, it shares the feelings and views of its peopl
Svetlana Alexievich
…state-owned publishing houses after 1993, while private publishers in Belarus have only published two of her books: Chernobyl Prayer in 1999 and Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets in 2013, both translated into Belarusian. As a result, Alexievich has been better known in the rest of the world than in Belarus. She has been described…
Secondhand Time The Last of the Soviets