1948-05-31 Galich, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, USSR (Ukraine)
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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Women's Day | herself | 2020-02-27 |
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Near and Elsewhere | 2019-03-21 | |
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Biélorussie, une dictature ordinaire | Self | 2018-03-18 |
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Lyubov: kärlek på ryska | 2017-11-11 | |
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Den värsta lögnen är den dokumentära | 2015-10-08 | |
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Unknown Quantity | 2005-02-03 |
