Svetlana Alexievich was awarded a Nobel Prize in which area?

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.

Alexievich's books trace the emotional history of the Soviet and post-Soviet individual through carefully constructed collages of interviews. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include 'The Unwomanly Face of War' (1985), 'Last Witnesses' (1985), 'Zinky Boys' (1990), 'Voices from Chernobyl' (1997), and 'Secondhand Time' (2013).

On 28 September 2020, Alexievich left Belarus for Germany, promising to return depending on political conditions in Belarus. She was the last member of the Coordination Council who was not in exile or under arrest prior to her departure.

In August 2021, her book 'The Last Witnesses' was excluded from the school curriculum in Belarus and her name was removed from the curriculum. It was assumed that the exclusion was made for her political activity.