She Fights for the Motherland

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Samra Teferra

Fermat's Last Theater Co. reading from "The Unwomanly Face of War" by Svetlana Alexievich, Room 302. Free.

media release: Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 for her oral histories of events and people in the former Soviet Union. Her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, was based on seven years of interviews of women who went to the front in World War II and fought in every capacity from fighter pilots to snipers to cooks. She had to fight Soviet censors to finally see the book published in 1985. A native of what is now Belarus, she has been a fierce critic of the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko.

The reading from Fermat's Last Theater features Samra Teferra as the voice of the author, and Mya Kahler and Maggie Schenk as the voices of the soldiers.