Person: Svetlana Alexievich

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Terry Prone: How plagiarist John Hughes doubled down on his own downfall

The novelist responded badly to being caught, capped by his complaint that it had all, you know, really ruined his week

Mon, 20 Jun, 2022

Clodagh Finn: If women ruled the world, would we still have leaders like Putin?

Looking around the world right now, you'd wonder if more women in power would provide a better alternative to the self-aggrandising egotism that has us in the state we're in

Wed, 09 Mar, 2022

Irish actress Jessie Buckley 'felt very emotionally involved' filming Chernobyl series

HBO and Sky 's co-production 'Chernobyl', based on the true-life accident that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986, will air next week.

Thu, 02 May, 2019

‘All we knew about war was what men told us’

Reading Svetlana Alexievich’s ‘War’s Unwomanly Face’ gave Nina L Khrushcheva an insight into the emotions her own relatives experienced as they fought, and survived, the Second World War

Fri, 23 Oct, 2015

Belarusian writer wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize in literature for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and courage”.

Fri, 09 Oct, 2015