Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Known Credits
6
Gender
Female
Birthday
May 31, 1948 ( 76 years old )
Place of Birth
Galich, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, USSR (Ukraine)
Also Known As
Светлана Алексиевич
Svetlana Aleksievich
Svetlana Aleksievitch
Святлана Алексіевіч
Sviatlana Alexievitch
Svetlana Alexievich
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.
Known For
Den värsta lögnen är den dokumentära
2015-10-08Lyubov: kärlek på ryska
2017-11-11Near and Elsewhere
2019-03-21Unknown Quantity
2005-02-03Women's Day
2020-02-27Biélorussie, une dictature ordinaire
2018-03-18