> It is worth noting that Russia’s most recent winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Svetlana Alexievich, also produced literary works that were purely fact

> It is worth noting that Russia’s most recent winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Svetlana Alexievich, also produced literary works that were purely factual. Alexievich won with "Secondhand Time"[0], which I absolutely loved. It is essentially a transcribed oral history, but composed in such a way so as to become literature. It is particularly admirable for the way in which it allows narratives which contradict each other to stand in adjacent chapters, which is jarring, but also very honest. Please read it if you have the patience for hard reading and some deeply sad stories. [0]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541184/secondhand-time-by-svetlana-alexievich/9780399588822/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541184/secondhand-t...