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Nobel prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich at 70: 'Reality has always attracted me like a magnet'

Belarusian investigative journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich turns 70 on May 31. Her unique, and often harrowing, insights into life behind the Iron Curtain were rewarded with the Nobel Prize in 2015.

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