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Svetlana Alexievich
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Svetlana Alexievich was born in the Ukraine in 1948.
Alexievich’s awards include the Swedish PEN prize for “courage and
dignity as a writer.” She constructs narratives from interviews with
witnesses to the most shattering national events. Twenty-one
documentary films have been based on her screenplays.
In 1989, Boys in Zink, banned from publication for 10 years, blew up the myth of the Soviet-Afghan war. She authored Enchanted with Death in 1993 and The Chernobyl Prayer in 1997. Voices from Chernobyl, translated by Keith Gesson, will be published by Dalkey Archive this spring.
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