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Born 31 May 1948
Also known as Svetlana Aleksievich, Svetlana Aleksandroff, Svetlana Aleksandrovna Aleksievich, Svetlana Aleksijevitj, Svetlana Alekxievich, Svetlana Alexievich, Svetlana Alexievitch, Svetlana Alexiévich, Svietlana Alexievich, Светла́на Алекса́ндровна Алексие́вич, Светла́на Алексие́вич
Svetlana 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 writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”.
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Alexievich makes a strong case for the Russian (and other ex-Soviet) people having the most miserable history of any people ever. Whether it's serfdom, socialism, or free-market capitalism, the Russians find a way to maximise the misery for all (or almost all…
Compiled by yours truly. https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueLit/comments/1fwciah/truelits_100_best_books_of_the_quarter_century/
The Unwomanly Face of War is not a linear narrative, it is a selection of first-hand accounts by women in the Soviet Union during the German invasion in 1941, all gathered by the Soviet/Russian journalist Svetlana Aleksyvich. You could read it as tragedy porn…
This is a list of books I have purchased physical copies of in a whirlwind of intellectual curiosity and collector's mania which apparently died down by the time I got home. I have wide-ranging interests as an appraiser of humanity, eclecticism created by a m…
