Svetlana Alexievich

Belarusian author and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1948)

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian author, investigative journalist, 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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