Svetlana Aleksievich biography

Disconnect on the page of Svetlana Aleksandrovna Aleksievich to disable on all pages of the authors to preserve the biography - Svetlana Aleksievich Svetlana Aleksievich - Belarusian writer, journalist. Writes in Russian. Laureate of the Nobel Prize in the literature of the year. Born on May 31 in Ivano-Frankivsk Ukraine in the family of a soldier. Father is Belarusian, mother is Ukrainian.

After the demobilization of her father from the army, the family moved to his homeland - to Belarus. We lived in the village. Father and mother worked as rural teachers. After graduation, she worked as a correspondent of the district newspaper in the house, still wrote poetry and newspaper notes at the school. In a became a student at the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University in Minsk.

During her studies, he was several times a laureate of republican and all -Union contests of scientific ... student works. After the university, she was sent to work in the Brest region. Working in the newspaper, at the same time taught at a rural school. A year later, she was hired by Minsk, to the editorial office of the Republican "rural newspaper". And a few years later, she became a correspondent, and then the head of the essay and journalism department of the literary and artistic magazine "Neman" organ of the Union of Writers of Belarus.

Aleksievich tried myself, his voice in different genres - stories, journalism, reports. The decisive influence on her choice was exerted by the famous Belarusian writer Ales Adamovich and his well -known books “I am from the Fiery Village” and “Blockade Book”. They were written not by them, but in collaboration with other writers, but the idea and development of this new genre belonged to him for the Belarusian and modern Russian literature.

Adamovich called this genre in different ways, all the time he searched for the exact formulation: “Cathedral Roman”, “Roman-Oratorio”, “Roman-testament”, “The people who are telling about itself”, “Epic-chorus prose”, etc. She always called him her main teacher. Svetlana Aleksievich herself once outlined in an interview so the main idea of ​​her books, her life: "I always want to understand how much a person is in a person.

And how to protect this person in a person? How can we protect him." B was written the book "The War has not a female face." For two years she lay in the publishing house and was not printed, the author was accused of pacifism, naturalism, and the debunking of the heroic image of the Soviet woman. Such accusations in those days were considered serious. Moreover, Svetlana was drawn by the long -standing glory of the anti -Soviet and the dissense, a configured journalist.

But new times broke out. The book “The War is not a female” was published almost simultaneously in the Moscow journal “October”, the Belarusian publishing house “Mastatskaya Litaratura”, and then in “Soviet Writer”, in “Roman Gazeta”, etc. And in subsequent years it was reprinted repeatedly-the total circulation reached 2 million. Famous Fronthic writers greeted: Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, Kondratyev, In Baklanov, Granin, Okudzhava and many others.

In the same year, the second book was also published, which also waited for about a year - “The last witnesses”. This book has also been published many times, marked by numerous criticism, which called both books "a new discovery of military prose." The book "Zinc Boys" was published. To write this book, Aleksievich traveled around the country for four years, met with the mothers of the dead soldiers and former Afghan warriors.

She herself visited the war, flew to Afghanistan. After the release of the book that produced the effect of an exploding bomb in society, many did not forgive the author with the debunking of a heroic military myth. The military and communist newspapers fell upon it. In Minsk, a political trial was organized over the author and the book “Zinc Boys”. But the democratic community rose in defense, many famous intellectuals abroad.

The court was suspended. A new book was published - "Enchanted by Death." It was a story about suicides - about those who committed suicide or tried to commit suicide, unable to withstand the disappearance of socialist ideas, the socialist continent. Those who equalized themselves with the idea were tight to her tightly. Who did not find the strength to accept the new world.

A new story and a new country. In Aleksievich graduated and published the book "Chernobyl prayer". It was first published in the journal Friendship of Peoples, and then in the publishing house "Ostozhny". In total in 19 countries. She is the author of scripts 21 documentary. And three theatrical plays. In France, Germany, Bulgaria, performances were staged by its books.

Aleksievich is called "a brilliant master of artistic and documentary prose." At the same time, there are sometimes critical opinions that characterize the work of Aleksievich as speculative-trendy journalism in the fall of the year, a book was published about how difficult and painfully experienced contemporaries in the fall of the Soviet era. It is known in a consistent negative position in relation to the foreign and domestic policy of President A.

Lukashenko, in connection with which she was subjected to judicial and extrajudicial persecution. Since the beginning of the 10ths, Italy has lived in exile, France.

Since the beginning of the 10ths, she lived in Italy, France, Germany.From a year, Minsk lives in Belarus again. She raised her daughter of her early dead sister. In the year, it was considered one of the applicants for the Nobel Prize in literature, but the prize was received by writer Alice Manro from Canada. In the year, Svetlana nevertheless received a prize with the wording “for the polyphonic sound of her prose and perpetuating suffering and courage” and became the first Nobel laureate in the history of independent Belarus and the first Russian-speaking writer awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

The monetary prize of the award amounted to 8 million Swedish crowns about thousand after the Crimean events performed in the German newspaper Frankfurter AllGemeine with condemnation of the Russian policy against Ukraine. Detailed biography.