WRITER

Svetlana Alexievich

1948 - Today

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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Svetlana Alexievich has received more than 1,640,104 page views. Her biography is available in 96 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). Svetlana Alexievich is the 177th most popular writer (up from 189th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction writer. She is most famous for her book The Unwomanly Face of War, which is a collection of interviews with women who served in the Soviet Army during World War II.

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  • 1.6M

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  • 77.18

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  • 96

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Svetlana Alexievich ranks 177 out of 7,302. Before her are Karel Čapek, Pliny the Younger, François-René de Chateaubriand, Wisława Szymborska, Taras Shevchenko, and Luigi Pirandello. After her are J. D. Salinger, Osamu Dazai, André Breton, Nizami Ganjavi, John Steinbeck, and Aldous Huxley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Svetlana Alexievich ranks 6. Before her are Al Gore, Charles, Prince of Wales, Jean Reno, Gérard Depardieu, and Terry Pratchett. After her are Eckhart Tolle, Jean-Michel Jarre, Cat Stevens, Samuel L. Jackson, Hassan Rouhani, and Sauli Niinistö.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Svetlana Alexievich ranks 17 out of 1,365. Before her are Joseph Conrad (1857), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), and Helena Blavatsky (1831). After her are Stanisław Lem (1921), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Stefania Turkewich (1898), and Anna Akhmatova (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Svetlana Alexievich ranks 4. Before her are Nikolai Gogol (1809), Joseph Conrad (1857), and Taras Shevchenko (1814). After her are Stanisław Lem (1921), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Lesya Ukrainka (1871).

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