Svetlana Alexievich

Prize: Nobel Prize in Literature — 2015
for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time

occupation: journalist
historian
writer
oral historian
field of work: journalism
creative and professional writing
educated at: Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University
end time: 1972
employer: Маяк
end time: 1973
Нёман
Prypyatskaya Prauda
end time: 1966
Selskaia gazeta
member of: Second convocation of the Coordination Council
Belarusian PEN Centre
start time: 1989
USSR Union of Writers
start time: 1976
Coordination Council for the Transfer of Power
notable work: Second-Hand Time
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from a Forgotten War
War's Unwomanly Face
The Last Witnesses
Voices from Chernobyl

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