Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Aleksiyeviç)
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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 |
Job | Author |
Journalist | |
Education | Belarusian State University |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Herder Prize | |
Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage | |
Order of the Badge of Honour | |
Oxfam Novib/PEN Award | |
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction | |
Lenin Komsomol Prize in the Field of Literature, Arts, Journalism and Architecture | |
Languag | Russian |
Parents | Aleksandr Alexievich |
Books | Voices from Chernobyl |
Movies/Shows | Voices from Chernobyl |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1784369 |
Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Aleksiyeviç) 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.