Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich was born on 31 May 1948 in Stanislav, now Ivano-Frankivsk, in Ukraine, to a Belarusian father and a Ukrainian mother, both schoolteachers, and grew up in Belarus. A journalism student at the University of Minsk from 1967, she worked for local newspapers, taught for a time, then joined the magazine Neman, where she ran the section of documentary texts. Her books, made of collected monologues, earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015.

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• NarrativeThe Unwomanly Face of WarУ войны не женское лицоSvetlana Alexievich · 1985Literature