photo Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 2015
for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time
Citizenship
Soviet Union Soviet Union Belarus Belarus
Languages
Russian, Belarusian
date of birth
5/31/1948
place of birth
Ivano-Frankivsk
Age
78 years
member of
  • Belarusian PEN Centre
    • start time: 1/1/1989
  • USSR Union of Writers
    • start time: 1/1/1976
  • Second convocation of the Coordination Council
  • Coordination Council for the Transfer of Power
educated at
  • Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University
    • end time: 1/1/1972
employer
  • Prypyatskaya Prauda
    • end time: 1/1/1966
  • Маяк
    • end time: 1/1/1973
  • Нёман
  • Selskaia gazeta
field of work
  • journalism
  • creative and professional writing
notable work
  • Voices from Chernobyl
  • Second-Hand Time
  • War's Unwomanly Face
  • Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from a Forgotten War
  • The Last Witnesses
occupation
  • journalist
  • writer
  • oral historian
  • historian
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