Svetlana Alexandravna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and prose writer. In 2014, she was nominated by Ural Federal University to receive the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature.She was declared winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2015 “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”.See also: Five Things You Need To Know About Nobel Prize Winner Svetlana Alexievic
