The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich’s “War Has No Woman’s Face” is one of the most famous books about war in the world by a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

“War Has No Woman’s Face” is an experiment in unique penetration into a woman’s inner world—women surviving in inhuman conditions of war. Here is the final author’s edition of the book: the writer, following her creative method, revised the book by removing censorship edits, adding new episodes, and supplementing the recorded women’s confessions with pages from her own diary that she kept during the seven years of work on the book.

Stage productions based on Svetlana Alexievich’s “War Has No Woman’s Face” have been performed in Moscow and Almaty.

“For many-voiced creativity—a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Svetlana Alexievich received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. The book has been translated into more than twenty languages, included in school and university programs in many countries, and has received several prestigious awards: the Ryszard Kapuściński Award (2011) for the best work in the reportage genre, the Angelus Prize (2010), and others.