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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) 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".
May 27, 2024 · Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian journalist and prose writer whose meticulously crafted works provided a compelling and uncompromising portrayal of the social and political upheaval within the Soviet Union from the postwar era to the fall of communism. She won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Svetlana Alexievich. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015. Born: 31 May 1948, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Residence at the time of the award: Belarus. Prize motivation: “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time” Prize share: 1/1. Life. Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine.
Svetlana Alexievich has created a literary non-fiction genre that is entirely her own. She writes “novels of voices.” She has developed this genre book after book, constantly honing the esthetic of her documentary prose, which is based on hundreds of interviews.
Svetlana Alexievich – Voices from Big Utopia. I’m searching life for observations, nuances, details. Because my interest in life is not the event as such, not war as such, not Chernobyl as such, not suicide as such. What I am interested in is what happens to the human being, what happens to it in of our time. How does man behave and react.
Dec 7, 2015 · The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"
Oct 19, 2015 · Svetlana Alexievich, the sixty-seven-year-old winner of this year’s prize in literature, was at a table for ten in the front of a noisy restaurant in Berlin, where she held her Nobel press...
Oct 9, 2015 · Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarussian journalist and prose writer known for deeply researched works about female Russian soldiers in World War II and the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear...
Jul 10, 2019 · Svetlana Alexievich has created a new literary form to tell the story of modern Russia, not through the acts of parliaments and presidents, but with the voices of ordinary men and women, swept along by the currents of history.
Oct 8, 2015 · Investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. Alexievich is the first writer from Belarus to win...
