Last Witnesses

Last Witnesses
AuthorSvetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich
LanguageRussian
SeriesVoices from Utopia
Genrenon-fiction
PublisherMolodaya Gvardiya
Publication date1985
Preceded byThe Unwomanly Face of War 
Followed byChernobyl Prayer 

The Last Witnesses is a documentary-fiction book by the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was first published, with the subtitle A Book of Unchildlike Stories, in the tenth issue of the journal Oktyabr in 1985. It was also published as a separate edition in 1985 with the same subtitle (while later editions bore the subtitle Solo for a Child's Voice). The book is composed of recollections by people who experienced the Great Patriotic War as children, continuing the theme begun in The Unwomanly Face of War. It constitutes the second part of the documentary-fiction cycle Voices from Utopia.[1]

Works based on the book

A documentary film based on the book, Children of War: Last Witnesses, was directed by Alexei Kitaytsev from a screenplay by Lyudmila Romanenko. Svetlana Alexievich appears in the film. It was produced by MB Group, Moscow, in 2009, and has a running time of 45 minutes. The film received a special prize in the open documentary competition Man and War in Yekaterinburg in 2011.[2]

Composer Vladimir Magdalits wrote the symphony-requiem Last Witnesses, a composition for reader, bass, piano, organ, mixed and children's choirs, and symphony orchestra.[3]

References

  1. ^ Алексиевич, Светлана Александровна (1985). Последние свидетели: Книга недетских рассказов - каталог РГБ. Москва: Молодая Гвардия. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  2. ^ "Дети войны. Последние свидетели / Телеканал «Россия 1»". russia.tv (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2015-12-05. Retrieved 2026-04-06.
  3. ^ "Композитор Владимир Магдалиц: Некоторые из нас не умрут" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2026-04-06.

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