Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana AlexievichSvetlana Alexievich was born May 31, 1948 in the west Ukrainian town of Stanislav to a Ukrainian mom and a Belarusian dad. After she graduated from high school she worked as a reporter at several local newspapers. She graduated in 1972 from Belarusian State University, and became a correspondent for Nyoman (the literary magazine) in Minsk.