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Svetlana Aleksievich

Also known as

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**Svetlana 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”.

Born 1948-05-31

Identifiers

  • WikidataQ274334
  • LibraryThingalexievichsvetlana
  • Goodreads19003531
  • VIAF24646187
  • ISNI0000000116088738

Top Subjects

  • Soviet Union (7)
  • Russia (Federation) (3)
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Soviet Union (2)
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Russian (2)
  • Afghanistan (2)
  • Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 (2)
  • Commercial correspondence, Russian (2)

Books by Svetlana Aleksievich

Total count: 22