Talk:Svetlana Alexievich/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Popularity in Belarus

The article proclaims that Svetlana Alexievich isn't widely known in Belarus because only two books were published in Belarus and translated to Belarusian. This makes not much sense since Belarusian is a minority language in Belarus. The vast majority of Belarus speaks Russian and all of Alexievich' books have been published in Russia and are therefore also available in Belarus. The linked Kommersant article explains her lack of renown in her own country, because she's spent many years living abroad and her books are written for a western audience, not a Belarussian or Russian audience. But that article also says Alexievich is a well-known author in the Russian speaking world, but still better known in the west.

New book

Her last book from the cycle "Voices of Utopia" [1],[2], [3]. A fragment from the book, very telling. another part of the book. My very best wishes (talk) 21:43, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

[4] - Nobel Prize. My very best wishes (talk) 13:19, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Carp Fishing and Vandalism

We've removed references to Alexievich being an "ornithologist" twice now. The second time with a spurious citation from a site obviously quoting Wikipidia. Now there's a suggestion she "briefly worked on Belarus' first carp fishing magazine". The first time citing an article that never mentioned this fact, the second time a profile written after the fact first appeared in Wikipedia, so probably taken from here. Can we please have a clear, direct citation that perhaps says which Belarus carp-fishig magazine it was, and that it was the first one, before we accept this edit? And can we try to rely on actual sources for facts, not profiles which might be cribbing their information from Wikipedia vandalism? Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 18:47, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that was vandalism. According to the source [www.dw.com/en/svetlana-alexievich-reality-has-always-attracted-me-like-a-magnet/a-18768298], she briefly worked as a teacher and a reporter in the Belarusian town of Narovl, through the 1970s. My very best wishes (talk) 20:44, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Bibliography In Russian

I would add the words she traced about herself... once she won the Nobel prize "I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland of my mother, where I was born; and Russia's great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself. All are very dear to me. But in this day and age it is difficult to talk about love." These are very important not only for her but for each of us as human being... and in our world today it does not matter which country you are from and never the less: she loves, appreciates and fights what is to be appreciated for and not only blames...

Lukashenka reaction

Of course the below are trivia, but still funny:

«Она ведь не зовет людей на площадь, она против мятежей этих. Я это очень ценю». ("But this does not all people to come out into the town square; she is against these riots. I appreciate this very much") - üser:Altenmann >t 01:09, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

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