Svetlana Alexievich
Russian
['hill mari', 'hindi', 'armenian', 'georgian', 'telugu', 'ancient egyptian', 'north korean', 'czech', 'middle english', 'estonian', 'mari', 'old italian', 'valencian', 'hangul', 'tamil', 'bantu', 'french', 'italian', 'simplified chinese', 'hispanic', 'oriya', 'marathi', 'catalan', 'classical greek', 'portuguese', 'breton', 'bengali', 'burmese', 'northern sami', 'old french', 'great russian', 'abaza', 'croat', 'kurdish', 'chuvash', 'welsh', 'hebrew', 'nynorsk', 'romanian', 'slovenian', 'indigenous', 'seto', 'khmer', 'ladino', 'flemish', 'serbian latin', 'lower sorbian', 'old russian', 'gujarati', 'punjabi', 'magyar', 'upper sorbian', 'yue', 'albanian', 'ukrainian', 'ubangian', 'occitan', 'japanese', 'spanish', 'scottish', 'family', 'middle aramaic', 'malayalam', 'indonesian', 'swedish', 'romansh', 'cornish', 'germanic', 'latin', 'chinese', 'kannada', 'german', 'dutch', 'meadow mari', 'russified', 'afrikaans', 'castilian', 'ancient greek', 'aramaic', 'urdu', 'basque', 'hungarian', 'belarusian', 'attic', 'manx gaelic', 'finnish', 'norwegian', 'bulgarian', 'greek', 'croatian', 'persian', 'danish', 'serbian cyrillic', 'slovene', 'serbian', 'oscan', 'bodo', 'polish', 'cantonese']
Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948 in Stanislaviv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer 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.