She is connected to Russia and Ukraine as well as Belarus and is a writer of all three nations the passage from Soviet state to national state was experienced by them all, and her life has been divided among them. The force of her work, the source of its power and plausibility, is the choice of a generation (her own) as a major subject and the close attention to its major inflection point, which was the end of the Soviet Union.
It is right, but also not quite right, to celebrate the journalist and contemporary historian, Svetlana Alexievich, this year’s laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, as a Belarusian writer. The Chernobyl nuclear power station, May 2008
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