Svetlana Aleksievich
1948
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: literary realism
genre: non-fiction literature, short novel
country of citizenship: Belarus, Soviet Union
native language: Russian
languages spoken, written or signed: Russian, Belarusian
occupation: writer, journalist
award received: Herder Prize, Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, Order of the Badge of Honour, Lenin Komsomol Prize, Angelus Award, Nagroda Literacka Związku Pisarzy ZSRR im. Nikołaja Ostrowskiego, Nagroda Literacka Związku Pisarzy ZSRR im. Konstantina Fiedina, Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Andrei Sinyavsky prize, Triumph, Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, Das politische Buch, Oxfam Novib/PEN Award, Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage, Nobel Prize in Literature, Officer of Arts and Letters, Prix Médicis essai, Belarusian Democratic Republic 100th Jubilee Medal, honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Anna Politkovskaya Award, Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva, honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
official website: alexievich.info
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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