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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.
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 ...
Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature. Svetlana Alexievich: 31 May 1948 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine — 2003, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015: Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Klára Jarunková: 28 April 1922 Šumiac, Brezno, Slovakia 11 July 2005 Bratislava, Slovakia 2003 [153] Giovanna Mulas 6 May 1969 Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy — 2003 [154 ...
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.
The 58 signatories include literature prize winners Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus, J.M. Coetzee, Herta Müller, and peace prize laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Oscar Arias, Jody Williams ...
Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2015, Belarusian investigative journalist and prose writer Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". [9] [10]
Fitzcarraldo Editions was founded in 2014 when Jacques Testard bought the English-language rights to Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich for £3500 at the Frankfurt Book Fair. [4] Alexievich later won the Nobel Prize, netting a "six-figure" sum for the publisher. The name comes from the 1982 Werner Herzog film Fitzcarraldo.