- Svetlana Alexievich was born on May 31, 1948 in Stanislav, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine]. She is a writer, known for Voices from Chernobyl (2016), Chernobyl (2019) and Vassia (2017).
- She spent 10 years in exile, starting in 2000, before moving back to Minsk.
- She studied journalism at the University of Minsk. She was a journalist for several years before publishing her first book, "War's Unwomanly Face", in 1985.
- She is the 2015 Nobel laureate for literature. Her best-known works in English translation include "Voices From Chernobyl", an oral history of the 1986 nuclear catastrophe; and "Boys In Zinc", a collection of first-hand accounts of the Soviet-Afghan war.
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