Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian author, investigative journalist, and oral historian who writes in Russian. Her book Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets traces the collapse of the Soviet Union through the recollections of those who lived through it, and her other works include Boys in Zinc and Last Witnesses. In 2015 she received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from Belarus to win it.