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Oct 08, 2015 svetlana alexievich, the belarusian writer whose oral histories have recorded thousands of individual voices to map the implosion of the soviet union, has won the nobel prize for literature. Svetlana alexievich has 28 books on goodreads with 177377 ratings. Svetlana alexievich masha gessen the new york public. Alexievich has received numerous awards for her writing, including a prize from the swedish pen institute for courage and dignity as a writer. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre which brings together a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Svetlana alexievich was born in ivanofrankivsk, ukraine, in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the soviet union and presentday belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in western europe.
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