Nobel winner Svetlana Alexievich: a bibliography

‘War’s Unwomanly Face’ and ‘Bewitched by Death’ among writer’s books

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Moscow: Here is a short bibliography of works by Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich, who on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize:

War’s Unwomanly Face (1985) — how the Second World War was lived and fought by Soviet women.

The Last Witnesses, the Book of Unchildlike Stories (1985) — based on children’s memories of war.

Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (1990).

Bewitched by Death (1993), about suicides in the Russian army.

Voices from Chernobyl: Chronicle of the Future (1997) — based on interviews with those who survived the nuclear disaster.

Second-Hand Time (2013), a novel about the tragic history of “homo Sovieticus”.

Alexievich has also written the preface of the essay Requiem for Beslan (2006) on the hostage taking in a Ossetian school.

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