Quotes by Svetlana Alexievich

About Svetlana Alexievich:

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and prose writer. In 2014, she was nominated by Ural Federal University for the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature.
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Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Svetlana Alexievich

Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.

Svetlana Alexievich

Is there anything more frightening than people?

Svetlana Alexievich

Author Bio

  • NameSvetlana Alexievich
  • DescriptionBelarussian writer
  • AliasesSvetlana Aleksievi?
  • BornMay 31, 1948
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist
  • AwardsHerder Prize; Peace Prize Of The German Book Trade; Order Of The Badge Of Honour; Lenin Komsomol Prize; ; ; ; Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis; ; ; ; Das Politische Buch; Oxfam Novib/PEN Award; Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski Award For Literary Reportage; ; Prix Médicis