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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich [1] (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich (born 1948) "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". [1] [2] She is described as the first journalist and the first Belarusian national to receive the Nobel prize which she received on December 10, 2015. [3]
Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. 2014: Svetlana Alexievich: 31 May 1948 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine — 2014, 2015: Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. 2015: Anna Nerkagi: 15 February 1951 Yamalo-Nenets, Russia — 2015, 2018, 2020 [161] [162] 2016: Lygia Fagundes Telles: 19 April 1918 São Paulo, Brazil 3 April 2022 São Paulo ...
It also carried the names of literature winners Svetlana Alexievich, J.M. Coetzee and Herta Mueller, and 19 other laureates in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics. Nobel prize winners ...
The appeal was signed by three winners of the Nobel literature prize including Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, as well as by seven peace laureates and 45 winners in science and economics.
As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals. [5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French ...
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Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]