Svetlana Alexievich builds individual voices into a mighty chorus
Alexievich arranges unflinching first-hand accounts into mighty choruses, never ceasing to be amazed at “how interesting everyday life is”, at...
Alexievich arranges unflinching first-hand accounts into mighty choruses, never ceasing to be amazed at “how interesting everyday life is”, at...
Svetlana Alexievich: where to start with her literature · Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future · The Unwomanly Face of War · Second-hand...
Alexievich's work has a double perspective. On the one hand, she wants to talk about the Red Individual, and all the formative experiences.
In her 1997 book, Chernobyl Prayer, the Nobel prizewinning journalist Svetlana Alexievich records the testimonies of survivors of the Soviet...
Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian journalist and chronicler of life in and after the Soviet Union, won the Nobel Prize for literature today.
“It has no significance whatsoever,” Ms. Danius told The Wall Street Journal. “The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded on literary grounds.
Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To Belarusian Writer Svetlana Alexievich. Svetlana Alexievich is known for her work as an investigative...
In this latest book, one voice is of a woman who seems to have stepped out of a tale by Chekhov. With three children, she is married to a good man who loves...
Belarusian journalist and prose writer, a Russian-language author of meticulously crafted works of depth and introspection that provided a compelling and...
Svetlana Alexievich's speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2015 (translation into English). I would like to thank the Swedish Academy for this...
Nobel Prize-winning author whose work addresses the impact of totalitarianism, including reflections on the situation in Georgia.