Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and nonfiction prose writer Her father is Belarusian and her mother is Ukrainian After her fathers demobilisation from the army the family returned to his native Belarus and settled in a village where both parents worked as schoolteachers She left school to work as a reporter on the local paper in the town of Narovl She went on to have a career in journalism and has written short stories and reportage in which shes covered the Chornobyl catastrophe the Soviet war in Afghanistan and many other events all based on thousands of interviews of witnesses Svetlana received Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015