Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.

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• Svetlana Alexievich:

  My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or

• Svetlana Alexievich:

  I grew up in the countryside.

• Svetlana Alexievich:

  I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians

• Svetlana Alexievich:

  Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street

• Svetlana Alexievich:

  I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.

• Svetlana Alexievich:

  Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture i

• Svetlana Alexievich:

  I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect

• Svetlana Alexievich:

  I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change,

• Svetlana Alexievich:

  Love is what brings us into this world.

• Svetlana Alexievich:

  In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flou