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Svetlana Alexievich

Writing

Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich is a writer born on May 31, 1948 in Galich, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, USSR (Ukraine). She is known for Chernobyl, Voices from Chernobyl and Lyubov: Love in Russian. GloboWatch shows where to watch one of her movies and TV shows, country by country.

Known for
Writing
Born
May 31, 1948
Place of birth
Galich, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, USSR (Ukraine)
Also known as
Svetlana Aleksievich · Svetlana Aleksievitch · Sviatlana Alexievitch

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.

Filmography

  1. 2020Women's Dayas Self
  2. 2019ChernobylStory
  3. 2019Near and Elsewhere
  4. 2018Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorshipas Self
  5. 2017Lyubov: Love in RussianWriter
  6. 2016Voices from ChernobylNovel
  7. 2015Den värsta lögnen är den dokumentäraWriter
  8. 2005Unknown Quantity
  9. 1983The Unwomanly Face of WarWriter