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Svetlana Alexievich

Born

in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

May 31, 1948

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Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to be a journalist at the University of Minsk and worked a teacher, journalist and editor. In Minsk she has worked at the newspaper Sel'skaja Gazeta, Alexievich's criticism of the political regimes in the Soviet Union and thereafter Belarus has periodically forced her to live abroad, for example in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden.

Svetlana Alexievich depicts life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals. In her books she uses interviews to create a collage of a wide range of voices. With her "documentary novels", Svetlana ...more

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Average rating: 4.44 · 131,188 ratings · 17,696 reviews · 43 distinct works • Similar authors

	Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 4.40 avg rating — 58,596 ratings — published 1997 — 214 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War's Unwomanly Face 4.51 avg rating — 33,855 ratings — published 1983 — 179 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich (Translator) 4.46 avg rating — 18,415 ratings — published 2013 — 134 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich, Larry Heinemann (contributor), Sergio Rapetti (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 10,705 ratings — published 1989 — 131 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) 4.49 avg rating — 8,531 ratings — published 1985 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Battle Lost 4.29 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Войната не е с лице на жена / Последните свидетели (Гласовете на утопията, #1-2) by Svetlana Alexievich, Светлана Алексиевич, Alieś Adamovič (Afterword) 4.67 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1985 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of the Free Individual: The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul by Svetlana Alexievich, Jamey Gambrell (Translator) 4.31 avg rating — 137 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Urzeczeni śmiercią by Svetlana Alexievich, Leszek Wołosiuk (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PAQ. SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH. ULTIMOS TESTIGOS / LOS MUCHACHOS DEL ZINC 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Voices of Utopia (5 books)
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Bela Shayevich (Translator)

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“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.”
― Svetlana Aleksievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

tags: death, fairness, justice

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“Is there anything more frightening than people?”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

tags: chernobyl, disasters, fear, people

211 likes

“No one had taught us how to be free. We had only ever been taught how to die for freedom.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

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