Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich[1] (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian.

Oct 15, 2025 · Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian journalist and prose writer whose meticulously crafted works provided a compelling and uncompromising portrayal of the social and political …

With her “documentary novels”, Alexievich, who is a journalist, moves in the boundary between reporting and fiction. Her major works are her grand cycle Voices of Utopia, which consists of …

Jul 10, 2019 · In awarding Alexievich the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy praised her work as “a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” While her books focus …

Complete order of Svetlana Alexievich books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.

My chronicle embraces several generations. It starts with the memories of people who witnessed the 1917 Revolution, through the wars and Stalinist gulags, and reaches the present times. …

Oct 11, 2025 · While writing the book that helped propel her to the Nobel Prize in Literature, the writer Svetlana Alexievich was certain she was chronicling the swan song of the violent, …

Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe.

Svetlana Alexievich is the first Nobel laureate in the history of independent Belarus; she became the first Russian-language writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1987.

Svetlana Alexievich, born in 1948 in Belarus, is the author of War Doesn’t Have a Woman’s Face which brought official accusations of “pacifism and an unheroic portrayal of the Soviet woman” …