Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1948-05-31 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Gender: female

Field: Belarusian investigative journalist and essayist (Born: 1948)

Biography

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award.

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