Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel literature prize for her oral history of the end of the Soviet Union, is devoting her latest book to the “revolution with a woman’s face” in her native Belarus after a disputed election last year.
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Reuters: Nobel laureate writing book on ‘revolution with a woman’s face’ in Belarus
Nobel Literature Prize winner and the opposition's Coordination Council's presidium member Svetlana Alexievich, who was summoned for questioning as a witness in a criminal probe over the setting up of the council that seeks to oversee a peaceful transition of power, arrives at the Investigative Committee in Minsk on August 26, 2020.
