Svetlana Alexievich

Writing

Born: 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 …