Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankovsk in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own non-fiction genre which brings together a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works includeThe Unwomanly Face of War(1985),Last Witnesses(1985),Boys in Zinc(1991),Chernobyl Prayer(1997) andSecond-hand Time(2013). She has won many...
