Svetlana Alexievich

ABOUT SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Author known for her works The Boys of Zinc and Voices from Chernobyl, both of which were first-hand accounts.

She worked as a correspondent for the literary magazine, Neman.

She was given the National Book Critics Circle Award for Voices from Chernobyl in 2005.

She was born to a Belarusian father and a Ukrainian mother.

She left Belorussia after facing persecution from the Alexander Lukashenko regime.