The protest has a woman's face

The Nobel Prize in Literature Svetlana Alexievich greets her supporters upon her arrival at an official Belarusian commission to be questioned about the opposition protests.TATYANA ZENKOVICH / EFE

Svetlana Alexievich dedicated

- the first title in her

cycle

- to the fate of Soviet women who served on the front lines during World War II, who numbered 800,000.

On this subject there were only books of "men writing about men", and their stories differed from those she had heard told in the village where she grew up, when huddles formed at dusk, the widows and mothers of children sacrificed in the war conflict. .

Her stories, in which there were "no heroes or incredible feats, but human ...

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