Svetlana Alexievich Quotes


I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much.


Citations

Alexievich, Svetlana. "Nobel Lecture: On the Battle Lost." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 7 Dec. 2015.

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Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievich
  • Born: May 31, 1948
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  • Profession: Journalist

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist 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.