Svetlana Alexievich.

✺ Recommended book⁠ ❛⁠ War's Unwomanly Face (Voices of Utopia #1) by Svetlana Alexievich ❜⁠

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This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. ⁠

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More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century. Women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded but also fired a sniper's rifle, blew up bridges, went reconnoitering and killed... ⁠

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✚ Who is this #remarkablewoman ?

⁠Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to be a journalist at the University of Minsk and worked a teacher, journalist and editor. In Minsk she has worked at the newspaper Sel'skaja Gazeta, Alexievich's criticism of the political regimes in the Soviet Union and thereafter Belarus has periodically forced her to live abroad, for example in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden

In 2015 Ms Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

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✤ You can purchase the book following the link of the bio.All the profit will support our projects in Africa. ⁠

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Pic by Rebecca Traister⁠

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