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Born May 31, 1948 · Galich, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, USSR (Ukraine)
Active 1983–present · Awards: Herder Prize, Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, Order of the Badge of Honour, Lenin Komsomol Prize, Angelus Award, Kurt Tucholsky Prize
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer. Her father is Belarusian and her mother is Ukrainian.