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Svetlana Alexievich captured the psyche – and trauma – of a Soviet people and nation

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imageNobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich.Reuters

Though Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich has been the recipient of multiple European book awards, her work has gone largely unrecognized in the United States. It’s probably due to the fact that she writes in Russian, and only four of her books have been translated into English.

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