Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Svetlana Alexievich
Born: May 31, 1948 (age 76)
Bio: Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer who writes in Russian.
Known for:
- Second-Hand Time (2013)
- Voices from Chernobyl (1997)
- War's Unwomanly Face (1985)
- Zinky boys (1989)
- Boys in Zinc (2016)