In New York, the Nobel prize-winning Belarusian writer also spoke about chronicling politics and suffering – and why she’s turning her attention to love
It is almost certain, Svetlana Alexievich said last night, that the force driving her stories is “a deep childhood trauma”. Alexievich was not referring to her nonfiction work and the oral histories of the former Soviet Union that won her the Nobel prize in literature. She was talking about the events in her own history that pushed her into a lifetime of chronicling politics and suffering.
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