Her writing is vivid and terrifying. Her _War Does Not Have a Woman&#x27;s Face_ is at the top of my list of books to unread. It&#x27;s a collection of accounts from female survivors of WW2 trenches. It is not pushing a feminist narrative in traditional sense (wasn&#x27;t a thing in USSR) but is haunting in its honesty. Think _Saving Private Ryan_ without the humanistic takeaway.<p>She&#x27;s a part of Belarusian late 20th century documentary realism tradition, where authors build around authentic, traumatic biographies of the war generation. In literature, Vasil Bykau, her contemporary, even better known domestically. In cinematography, Klimov&#x27;s _Come and See_ perhaps the most known work.