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Svetlana Alexievich (b. 1948)

Alias:
Svetlana Aleksievich
Svetlana Aleksievitch
Sviatlana Alexievitch
Светлана Алексиевич
Святлана Алексіевіч

Birthplace:
Galich, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, USSR (Ukraine)

Born:
May 31, 1948

Biography from TheMovieDB

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer who writes in Russian. Her father is Belarusian and her mother is Ukrainian. After her father’s demobilisation from the army, the family returned to his native Belorussia and settled in a village where both parents worked as schoolteachers. She left school to work as a reporter on the local paper in the town of Narovl. She went on to a career in journalism, and has written short stories and reportage, in which she’s covered the Chernobyl catastrophe, the Soviet war in Afghanistan and many other events – all based on thousands of interviews with witnesses. Svetlana received the Nobel prize in literature 2015.

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Film Production

Book:
2008  The Door

Novel:
2008  The Door
2016  Voices from Chernobyl

Writer:
2008  The Door
2015  Den värsta lögnen är den dokumentära
2016  Voices from Chernobyl
2017  Lyubov: Love in Russian

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