Journalist & author

Svetlana Alexievich

Belarusian writer who built books entirely from interviews, on Chernobyl, Afghanistan and Soviet life, and a Nobel laureate.

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.

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Born
1948-05-31, Ivano-Frankivsk, UkraineA Monday
At birth
Sun in Gemini, Moon in Pisces
Nationality
Belarus
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1948-05-31, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine · time unknown, noon chart

Europe/Kievthe zone used then

The chart

Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunGemini9°47′Direct
MoonPisces14°29′Direct
MercuryCancer2°39′Direct
VenusCancer11°00′Direct
MarsVirgo5°24′Direct
JupiterSagittarius25°55′Retrograde
SaturnLeo17°25′Direct
UranusGemini25°17′Direct
NeptuneLibra10°19′Retrograde
PlutoLeo12°51′Direct

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