Svetlana Alexievich
b. 1948 · Belarus · Literature, History
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2015
Built a new documentary genre from thousands of interviews.
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- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918 – 2008 · Literature, History
Testimony assembled into documentary literature descends from The Gulag Archipelago.
- Anna Akhmatova
1889 – 1966 · Literature
Requiem's chorus of bereaved women is the form Alexievich made a method.
- Primo Levi
1919 – 1987 · Literature, Chemistry
Witness prose that refuses consolation is Levi's bequest.
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