Long, long ago, in a land far, far away, I walked into a hotel banquet hall in New York and discovered that every single Indonesian flag hanging from the ceiling was actually the flag of Poland. The I…
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Soviet Union. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to b…
