Svetlana Alexievich
Writing
Born May 31, 1948
From Galich, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, USSR (Ukraine)
Also known as Svetlana Aleksievich, Svetlana Aleksievitch, Sviatlana Alexievitch
Biography
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer. Her father is Belarusian and her mother is Ukrainian. After her father’s demobilisation from the army, the family returned to his native Belarus and settled in a village where both parents worked ...
