Svetlana Alexievich — writer, journalist with roots in the USSR
Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian writer and journalist who received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Belarusian writer to do so. Her books, including The Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Zinky Boys (1989), Voices from Chernobyl (1997) and Secondhand Time (2013), are built from personal testimonies presented as monologues. She left Belarus in September 2020 for Germany.
Tracing the roots — Stanislav (Ukrainian SSR)
Born on 31 May 1948 in Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Ukrainian SSR, to a Belarusian father and a Ukrainian mother, both teachers. She lived and worked in Belarus, left in 2000, returned to Minsk in 2011 and left again for Germany in September 2020.
Stanislav (Ukrainian SSR). At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.
A career defined by ambition
"I collect the history of feelings — not events."