Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alekseevich: story of an Armenian woman deported from Baku

As it is known, this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alekseevich. The prize was awarded for “polyphonic sounding of the new prose and perpetuating the suffering and courage”.

Alekseevich is the author of several books, including “War is not a woman’s face”, which is based on interviews with hundreds of women who participated in World War II. She was one of the first to speak about war through women. Womennet.am has already referred to this book in the article “Non female face” of wars.

“When women talk about war, they do not have what we used to read or listen to: how people heroically win or lose, what techniques or what kind of generals used to be. Women’s stories are different and about different things. “Woman’s” war has its colors, smells, interpretations and territory of its feelings…its words”, – wrote Svetlana Alekseevich in her book “War is not a woman’s face”, through which she tried to tell another story, female story…

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