Svetlana Aleksándrovna Aleksiévich1 or Svetlana Alexándrovna Alexiévich (Aleksiévič, transliterated from Russian Светлана Александровна Алексиевич, in Belarusian Святлана Аляксандраўна Алексіевіч, transcribed as Sviatlana Aliaksándrauna Alieksiyévich); Stanislav, Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Union, May 31, 1948) is a Russian-language writer and journalist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015.