Svetlana Aleksievich

About Svetlana Aleksievich

[Wikidata] Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer (born 1948)... | [Wikipedia] Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich 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 rec