A small Belarusian village ensconced in evergreen forest, rows of low wooden houses punctuated with dashes of street benches. There they sit, a group of women from the village - war widows, talking themselves to sleep. Why do they sit on these benches after a full day of work? They are afraid to go into their dark houses alone.
New York Times: Svetlana Alexievich’s chorus of fire
The laureate of the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize, Belarussian writer and dissident Svetlana Alexievich, leaves the venue after a press conference in Berlin, on Oct. 10.
