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Svetlana Alexievich

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 6

TMDB ID: 1769962

IMDb ID: nm6714046

Known for: Writing

Born: May 31, 1948

Age: 78

Place of birth: Galich, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, USSR (Ukraine)

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1983 - 2020

Years active: 38

Average TMDB rating: 8.72

Wikidata: Q274334

Also known as

Svetlana Aleksievich • Svetlana Aleksievitch • Sviatlana Alexievitch

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Biography

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer. Her father is Belarusian and her mother is Ukrainian. After her father’s demobilisation from the army, the family returned to his native Belarus and settled in a village where both parents worked as schoolteachers. She left school to work as a reporter on the local paper in the town of Narovl. She went on to have a career in journalism and has written short stories and reportage, in which she’s covered the Chornobyl catastrophe, the Soviet war in Afghanistan and many other events – all based on thousands of interviews of witnesses. Svetlana received Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015.

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