About

Known credits:
11
Birthday:
1948-05-31
Place of birth:
Galich, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, USSR (Ukraine)
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Svetlana Alexievich

Overview

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer who writes in Russian. Her father is Belarusian and her mother is Ukrainian. After her father’s demobilisation from the army, the family returned to his native Belorussia 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 a career in journalism, and has written short stories and reportage, in which she’s covered the Chernobyl catastrophe, the Soviet war in Afghanistan and many other events – all based on thousands of interviews with witnesses. Svetlana received the Nobel prize in literature 2015.

Known for

Acting
2020 Women's Day Actor herself N/A
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2019 Near and Elsewhere Actor N/A
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2018 Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship Actor Self 58
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2017 Lyubov: Love in Russian Actor N/A
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2015 Den värsta lögnen är den dokumentära Actor N/A
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2005 Unknown Quantity Actor N/A
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Writing
2017 Lyubov: Love in Russian Writing Writer N/A
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2016 Voices from Chernobyl Writing Novel 59
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2015 Den värsta lögnen är den dokumentära Writing Writer N/A
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2008 The Door Writing Book 59
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1983 The Unwomanly Face of War Writing Writer N/A
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