Svetlana Alexievich
Святлана Аляксандраўна Алексіевіч
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich
female author
nobel prize
journalism
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 receive the award.Wikipedia →
