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6 days ago · Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian journalist and prose writer whose meticulously crafted works provided a compelling and uncompromising portrayal of the social and political upheaval within the Soviet Union from the postwar era to the fall of communism. She won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature.
4 days ago · The mishaps and falsehood of the Soviet system as well as its collapse are emphasized in the peritexts of the novels of the Belarusian Nobel prize winning author Svetlana Alexievich based on her large interview materials (Aleksijevitš, Citation 2000 and 2018), and of Victor Erofeyev (Jerofejev, Citation 2007 and 2009).
May 7, 2024 · Svetlana Alexievich (born May 31, 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, ornithologist and prose writer. She is the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
4 days ago · Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich said the goal of the authorities was "to intimidate and humiliate, to make people incapable of resistance or even the thought of resistance." "It's all revenge," she said, "the revenge of the leader, Lukashenka's revenge for the fear he endured, for the fact that the people turned out to be completely different from what he imagined."
Interview with Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich. Insight on the (lack of) power of literature, and the post-Soviet state of mind, e.g. why Lex always asks about the "meaning of life" : r/lexfridman. • 12 days ago. Interview with Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich.
May 23, 2024 · Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich said the goal of the authorities was "to intimidate and humiliate, to make people incapable of resistance or even the thought of resistance."
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4 days ago · Doubting your core beliefs is not easy, however. As Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich wrote: “Courage in war and courage of thought are two different things. I used to think they were the same.” (WSJ). It requires immense personal suffering to speak against the prevailing ideology – maybe even more than when fighting in battle.
