The first day of Tbilisi International Festival of Literature is special because of the meeting with great Belorus writer Svetlana Aleksievich. Presentation of Georgian translation of her famous book: "Voices Chernobyl" will be also presented on this event. Translation by Nino Bekishvili, publishing house "Intellecti". Svetlana Aleksievich talks with Georgian writer and journalist Anna Kordzaia-Samadashvili.
Svetlana Alexievich was born in the Belorussian capital of Minsk. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. They have formed the basis for a dozen plays, and more than twenty of her scripts have been filmed as documentaries. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Médicis Essai 2013 and the Best Book of the Year Prize 2013 by the French literary magazine Lire for "Time Second Hand", the Peace Prize by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association 2013, the Angelus Central European Literature Award 2011 in Wroclaw/Poland for her book "War's Unwomanly Face", the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage 2011 for "War's Unwomanly Face", the National Book Critics Circle Award, New York 2006 for "The Chernobyl Prayer"; Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize, Osnabrück, 2001; the Robert Geisendörfer Radio Play Prize, the German Academy of the Performing Arts, Berlin, 2000; the “Témoin du Monde,” Paris, 1999; “The Best Book on Politics of the Year,” Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bremen, 1998; the Andrej Sinjavskij Prize, Moscow, 1997; the Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Swedish PEN Club, Stockholm, 1996.