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Svetlana Alexievich

1948 - Today

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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (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". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Svetlana Alexievich is the 208th most popular writer (down from 177th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 17th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction writer. She is most famous for her book The Unwomanly Face of War, which is a collection of interviews with women who served in the Soviet Army during World War II.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Svetlana Alexievich ranks 208 out of 7,302. Before her are Geoffrey Chaucer, Aldous Huxley, Imre Kertész, Luís de Camões, David Woodard, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal. After her are Terry Pratchett, Terence, Frédéric Mistral, Karel Čapek, Carlo Goldoni, and Pearl S. Buck.

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Among people born in 1948, Svetlana Alexievich ranks 8. Before her are Al Gore, George R. R. Martin, Jean Reno, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. After her are Terry Pratchett, Cat Stevens, Samuel L. Jackson, Ozzy Osbourne, Eckhart Tolle, and John R. Bolton.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Svetlana Alexievich ranks 21 out of 1,365. Before her are Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Joseph Conrad (1857), and Helena Blavatsky (1831). After her are Stanisław Lem (1921), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Ivan Mazepa (1639), and Stanisław Leszczyński (1677).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Svetlana Alexievich ranks 5. Before her are Nikolai Gogol (1809), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Taras Shevchenko (1814), and Joseph Conrad (1857). After her are Stanisław Lem (1921), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), and Isaac Babel (1894).

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