Svetlana Alexievich

Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia (The British Library)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 31 May 1948
Activity 1968-ongoing

Places

Born in Ukraine
Active in Belarus

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Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Journalist

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Svetlana Aleksievich (aka Alexievich, b. 1948) is the first Belarusian writer and the first woman author writing in Russian, who in 2015 was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine) to Ukrainian mother and Belarusian father, Aleksievich provides Ukraine with an opportunity to take pride in her, too. The author of

Voices from Utopia

(a documentary prose series based on oral history), Aleksievich was praised by the Nobel Prize Committee for “polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”. All her works are focused on the exploration of the “history of the Russian-Soviet soul”, or, as Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, put it, the “Red Individual”. A critic of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko…

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Citation: Rogatchevskaia, Ekaterina. "Svetlana Alexievich". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 March 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13646, accessed 16 April 2024.]

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