Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Svetlana Alexievich
Born: May 31, 1948 (age 77)
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)