Question

This author's book Last Witnesses collects testimonies of World War II from people who were children at the time. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Belarusian Nobel laureate whose oral histories include War's Unwomanly Face, the first book in her series Voices of Utopia.
ANSWER: Svetlana Alexievich [or Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich]
[10e] Alexievich helped inspire an HBO series with a book about this 1986 event, subtitled "The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster."
ANSWER: Chernobyl disaster [accept answers indicating an incident at Chernobyl or Chornobyl; accept Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster or Chernobyl Prayer or Chernobylskaya molitva]
[10m] Hundreds of prisoners' recollections helped inform this 1973 book by another Nobel laureate about the Soviet penal system, whose subtitle calls it an "Experiment in Literary Investigation."
ANSWER: The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation [or Arkhipelag GULAG] (by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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