Svetlana Alexievich
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 76 |
Date of birth | May 31,1948 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Ivano-Frankivsk |
Ukraine | |
Nationality | Belarusian |
Movies/Shows | Voices from Chernobyl |
War's Unwomanly Face | |
Lyubov – Or Love In Russia | |
Awards | Peace Prize of the German Book Trade |
Herder Prize | |
Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage | |
Lenin Komsomol Prize | |
Order of the Badge of Honour | |
Oxfam Novib/PEN Award | |
Nobel Prize in Literature | |
Full name | Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich |
Education | Belarusian State University |
Nominations | Neustadt International Prize for Literature |
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction | |
Parents | Aleksandr Alexievich |
Yevgeniya Alexievich | |
Books | The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II |
Zinky boys | |
The Last Witnesses | |
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 411935 |
Svetlana Alexievich Life story
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.