Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
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)