# Svetlana Alexievich

> She won the Nobel Prize in Literature for turning ordinary voices into monuments — collecting testimonies, not inventing characters, and building books from what people actually said.

*Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer (born 1948)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/svetlana-alexievich

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1948-05-31
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich was born on 31 May 1948 in Belarus. Working as an investigative journalist, essayist, and oral historian, she writes in Russian and developed a method: polyphonic books assembled from real testimonies rather than traditional narrative. In 2015 the Nobel committee awarded her the Literature Prize "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." She became the first writer from Belarus to receive it.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 71.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.3 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 24.9 / 100
- **Now attention:** 3.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 80.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #225

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/s_alexievich (@s_alexievich)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/100007455977017 (@100007455977017)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6714046/ (@nm6714046)
- **WEBSITE**: http://alexievich.info

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Journalism, #History, #20th Century

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274334)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alexievich)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Svetlana%20Alexievich)
- [سفيتلانا اليكسييفيتش](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4)
- [Svetlana Aleksiévich](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Aleksi%C3%A9vich)
- [Svetlana Aleksievitc](https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Aleksievitc)
- [سوتلانا الکسیویچ](https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%86)
- [Svetlana Aleksiyeviç](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Aleksiyevi%C3%A7)
- [Алексиевич Светлана Александровна](https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0)
- [Сьвятлана Алексіевіч](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8C%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87)
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- [Svetlana Aleksievitch](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Aleksievitch)
- [Svetlana Aleksiévitx](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Aleksi%C3%A9vitx)
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- [Světlana Alexijevičová](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sv%C4%9Btlana_Alexijevi%C4%8Dov%C3%A1)
- [Svetlana Alexievich](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alexievich)
- [Svetlana Aleksijevitj](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Aleksijevitj)
- [Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swetlana_Alexandrowna_Alexijewitsch)
- [Σβετλάνα Αλεξίεβιτς](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B2%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B1_%CE%91%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BE%CE%AF%CE%B5%CE%B2%CE%B9%CF%84%CF%82)
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- [Svetlana Aleksiévich](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Aleksi%C3%A9vich)
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