Svetlana Alexievich
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Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian 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.