"Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian author who writes in Russian and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015, lives in the same Berlin apartment, with its high ceilings and spacious rooms, where EL PAIS visited her four years ago. The author of Voices from Chernobyl, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War, and Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets continues to write by hand."
"On a long table lie fragments of the manuscript for her new book, which is no longer the one she was outlining in 2021, as events interfered with the work of the exiled author: in February 2022, Vladimir Putin, afflicted by imperial nostalgia, launched a war in Ukraine, and less than two years later, Donald Trump shattered the illusion of global solidarity."
"A member of the Coordinating Council of the Opposition to dictator Alexandr Lukashenko during the 2020 protests in Belarus, the writer observes a widespread backsliding of democracy, which goes far beyond the Soviet legacy. Alexievich gathers testimonies from the millions of Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians who have taken refuge in Europe, as well as from institutions that document repression and war in the Slavic territories that once belonged to the Soviet Union."
Svetlana Alexievich lives in a Berlin apartment with high ceilings and spacious rooms and continues to write by hand. Fragments of a manuscript for a new book lie on a long table, but the project changed after events in 2022 and subsequent political shifts. In February 2022 Vladimir Putin launched a war in Ukraine, and less than two years later Donald Trump shattered a sense of global solidarity. A member of the Coordinating Council opposing Alexandr Lukashenko during the 2020 protests, she observes democratic backsliding beyond the Soviet legacy. She gathers testimonies from Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians in Europe and consults institutions that document repression and war.
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