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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer who writes in Russian. Her father is Belarusian and her mother is Ukrainian. After her father’s demobilisation from the army, the family returned to his native Belorussia and settled in a village where both parents worked as schoolteachers. She left school to work as a reporter on the local paper in the town of Narovl. She went on to a career in journalism, and has written short stories and reportage, in which she’s covered the Chernobyl catastrophe, the Soviet war in Afghanistan and many other events – all based on thousands of interviews with witnesses. Svetlana received the Nobel prize in literature 2015.
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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1948-05-31 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceGalich, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, USSR (Ukraine)
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Belarus
ResidencesBerlin, Germany
Also Known AsСветлана Алексиевич, Svetlana Aleksievich, Svetlana Aleksievitch, Святлана Алексіевіч, Sviatlana Alexievitch
Awardshonorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense, Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva, Andrei Sinyavsky prize, Order of the Badge of Honour, Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage, Prix Médicis essai, Officer of Arts and Letters, Belarusian Democratic Republic 100th Jubilee Medal, Honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Angelus Award, Oxfam Novib/PEN Award, Triumph, Anna Politkovskaya Award, Lenin Komsomol Prize, Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, Das politische Buch, Herder Prize, Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, Nobel Prize in Literature
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