La ganadora del Premio Nobel de literatura, Svetlana Alexiévich, le da vida a las numerosas voces de aquellas mujeres silenciadas por la guerra. Deberíais crecer, niñas... Estáis muy verdes aún... Es uno de los fragmentos del ensayo La guerra no tiene rostro de un corpus formado por los desgarradores testimonios de aquellas que vivieron la guerra en sus propias carnes. Mujeres que lucharon, que resistieron, que fueron voluntarias, que fueron arrastradas; mujeres que salvaron y arrebataron vidas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. «Estaba embarazada del segundo... Mi hijo tenía dos años, yo estaba encinta. Estalló la guerra. Mi marido combatía en el frente. Me fui al pueblo donde vivían mis padres e hice... Ya me entiende... Aborté... En aquella época estaba prohibido... ¿Cómo podía dar a luz? Alrededor había tanto dolor... ¡La guerra! ¿Cómo se puede dar a luz si te rodea la muerte?»
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Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to be a journalist at the University of Minsk and worked a teacher, journalist and editor. In Minsk she has worked at the newspaper Sel'skaja Gazeta, Alexievich's criticism of the political regimes in the Soviet Union and thereafter Belarus has periodically forced her to live abroad, for example in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden. Svetlana Alexievich depicts life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals. In her books she uses interviews to create a collage of a wide range of voices. With her "documentary novels", Svetlana Alexievich, who is a journalist, moves in the boundary between reporting and fiction. Her major works are her grand cycle Voices of Utopia, which consists of five parts. Svetlana Alexievich's books criticize political regimes in both the Soviet Union and later Belarus. In 2015 Ms Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
