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  2. Svetlana Alexievich - Wikipedia

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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".

  3. 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Zinky Boys - Wikipedia

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    Zinky Boys [1] (Russian: Цинковые мальчики, romanized: Tsinkovye malchiki), also translated as Boys in Zinc [2] is a 1989 documentary book by Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich about the Soviet–Afghan War.

  5. Ivano-Frankivsk - Wikipedia

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    Svetlana Alexievich, 2013 Daniel Auster, 1949 Arthur F. Burns, 1955 Bernard Mond, ca.1935 Portrait of Józef Potocki Klemens Stefan Sielecki, 1946. Eliezer Adler (1866–1949), founder of the Jewish Community in Gateshead, England; Svetlana Alexievich (born 1948), Belarusian journalist and writer, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature

  6. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - Wikipedia

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    Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Russian: Время секонд хэнд, romanized: Vremya sekond khend) is a 2013 book by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. An oral history of the Soviet Union and its end, it shares the feelings and views of its people as the country transitioned to capitalism. The book contains few ...

  7. List of Ukrainian women writers - Wikipedia

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    Svetlana Alexievich (born 1948), Ukrainian-born Belarusian novelist, journalist, works translated into English; Victoria Amelina (1986 – 2023), Ukrainian novelist and poet; winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award; Emma Andijewska (born 1931), poet, short story writer, novelist, some works translated into English

  8. List of Nobel laureates in Literature - Wikipedia

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    Svetlana Alexievich (b. 1948) Belarus (born in Soviet Ukraine) Russian "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" [116] history, essay 2016: Bob Dylan (b. 1941) United States: English "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" [117] poetry, song lyrics 2017: Kazuo ...

  9. Hanna Krall - Wikipedia

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    The Belarusian 2015 Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich described Krall as a key influence. [8] Krall was a member of the Polish Writer's Union (Polish: Związek Literatów Polskich, ZLP) from 1978 to 1983 and the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich (Polish Writer's Association) from 1989 to 2020. [9]