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Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian author and Nobel laureate known for her oral histories.

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Svetlana Alexievich is best known for Belarusian author and investigative journalist awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for her oral histories documenting human suffering and courage. On Dead or Alive, Svetlana Alexievich is listed in the Nobel Laureates category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Svetlana Alexievich is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Belarusian author and investigative journalist awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for her oral histories documenting human suffering and courage.
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About Svetlana Alexievich

She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". Both her parents were teachers; her father was also a village school principal. She spent her early childhood in Ukraine; the family then moved to Belarus. She visited her grandmother in Ukraine during summer holidays. After graduating from high school she worked as a reporter in several local newspapers. In 1972 she graduated from Belarusian State University and became a correspondent for the literary magazine Nyoman in Minsk (1976). Her first manuscript, Ya uyekhal iz derevni ('I left the village') was blocked for publication by Soviet censorship. In 1989 Alexievich published Zinky Boys, a book about the fallen soldiers who had returned in zinc coffins from the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979 – 1989. She was accused of "defamation...

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