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Svetlana Alexievich

b. 1948

Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer (born 1948)

Born
31 May 1948 · Ivano-Frankivsk
Part ofUkraine896 CE – todayBelarus1385 – todaySoviet Union1848 – 1991Ukrainians1853 – todayRussians1866 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 90 years
  1. 31 May 1948BornBorn in Ivano-Frankivsk
  2. 1986AwardLenin Komsomol Prize
  3. 1996AwardKurt Tucholsky Prize
  4. 1998AwardDas politische Buch
  5. 1998AwardLeipzig Book Award for European Understanding
  6. 1999AwardHerder Prize
  7. 2005AwardNational Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
  8. 2007AwardOxfam Novib/PEN Award
  9. 2011AwardRyszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage
  10. 2011AwardAngelus Award
  11. 2013AwardPeace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
  12. 2013AwardPrix Médicis essai
  13. 2014AwardOfficer of Arts and Letters

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1948 – today).

  1. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  3. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  4. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  6. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  7. 1956Suez Crisis
  8. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  10. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  12. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  14. 1968Prague Spring
  15. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  16. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  17. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  18. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  20. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  21. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  22. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  23. 1985Schengen Agreement
  24. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  25. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  26. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  28. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  30. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  31. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  32. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  33. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  34. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  35. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  36. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  37. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  38. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  39. 20112011 Norway attacks
  40. 2011Libyan civil war

Biography

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian author, investigative journalist, 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.

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