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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich [1] (born 31 May 1948) 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 writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Russian: Время секонд хэнд, romanized: Vremya sekond khend) 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 people as the country transitioned to capitalism. The book contains few ...
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich (born 1948) "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". [1] [2] She is described as the first journalist and the first Belarusian national to receive the Nobel prize since December 10, 2015. [3]
Members included author Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature who left Belarus, and Ales Bialiatski, Belarus’ top human rights advocate and one of the winners of ...
Zinky Boys [1] (Russian: Цинковые мальчики, romanized: Tsinkovye malchiki), also translated as Boys in Zinc [2] is a 1989 documentary book by Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich about the Soviet–Afghan War.
Author Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster ( Russian : Чернобыльская молитва , romanized : Chernobylskaya molitva , lit. 'Chernobyl Prayer'), published as Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future in the United Kingdom, is a book about the Chernobyl disaster by the Belarusian ...
Voices from Chernobyl (1997) by Svetlana Alexievich (relates the psychological and personal tragedy of the Chernobyl accident, and explores the experiences of individuals and how the disaster affected their lives; was also part of the inspiration for the 2019 HBO TV miniseries Chernobyl. [5] [6]
Fitzcarraldo Editions was founded in 2014 when Jacques Testard bought the English-language rights to Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich for £3500 at the Frankfurt Book Fair. [4] Alexievich later won the Nobel Prize, netting a "six-figure" sum for the publisher. The name comes from the 1982 Werner Herzog film Fitzcarraldo.