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Svetlana Alexievich

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Svetlana Alexievich

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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (Belarusian: Святлана Аляксандраўна Алексіевіч, Romanized: Svyatlana Alyaksandrawna Aleksiyevich (born May 31, 1948) is a Belarusian journalist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 "for her retelling of writing methods that have established a monument to the suffering and heroism of contemporary people." She is also the first Belarusian to win the award.

Category
Media figures
Nationality
belarus
Born
1948-05-31
Wikidata
Q274334
Occupations writerjournalisthistorianoral historian
Aliases S. A. AlexeevichSvetlana AleksievichSvetlana AleksievichSvetlana AleksiyevichSvetlana Alexandrovna AlexievichSvetlana AlexievichSviatlana AleksievichSvyatlana Alyaksandrawna AlyeksiyevichSvyatlana AlyeksiyevichSvelana AlexevichSvellana Alexandra AlexevichSvelana AlexeyevSvetlana Alexandrovna AlexeevichSvetlana AlexievichSvetlana AlexievichAlexeyevich, S.

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