# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/svetlana-alexievich
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:22:40.136Z

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name: "Svetlana Alexievich"
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description: "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."
tagline: "Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer (born 1948)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.