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Svetlana Alexievich receiving her Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2015

© Photo M. Kabakova

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2015
“for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”
2015. Stockholm. Sweden

Svetlana Alexievich receiving her Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall,
10 December 2015

CATALONIA INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2022 — XXXIII PREMI INTERNACIONAL CATALUNYA
04 October 2022

BOOKSTAR PRIZE 2022 NORTH MACEDONIA

3-5 october 2022. Skopje,  North Macedonia

BUDAPEST GRAND PRIZE FROM THE MAYOR OF BUDAPEST 2022

29 September — 2 October 2022

DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA
MEDAL OF THE EXTRAORDINARY UNIVERSITY CLOISTER —
MEDALLA DEL CLAUSTRO EXTRAORDINARIO UNIVERSITARIO

Royal Spanish Academy — Real Academia Española
20 October 2022. Madrid

VMU HONORARY DOCTOR IN THE FIELD OF THE HUMANITIES
Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) Kaunas (Lithuania)

22 october 2022

HONORARY DOCTOR

European Humanities University (EHU) Vilnius (Lithuania) 2022

SONNING PRIZE The 2021 © Photo M. Kabakova

Award presentation
© Photo M. Kabakova

Award speech SONNING PRIZE The 2021 © Photo M. Kabakova

Award speech

SONNING PRIZE The 2021

Copenhagen, 23 September 2021

Ordensverleihung an Swetlana Alexijewitsch

Ordensverleihung

DAS GROSSE VERDIENSTKREUZ DES VERDIENSTORDENS DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND

Ver­lei­hung des Großen Ver­dienst­kreu­zes des Ver­dienstor­dens der Bun­des­re­pu­blik Deutsch­land an Swet­la­na Alex­an­drow­na Ale­xi­je­witsch

Ansprache des Bundespräsidenten Frank-Walter Steinmeier bei der Verleihung des Großen Verdienstkreuzes des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland an Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch am 15. Juni 2021 in Schloss Bellevue
15. Juni 2021  Berlin

DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA OF THE UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES (ULB) AND THE VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL (VUB)
3 May 2021 Brussels. Belgium
HONORARY DOCTOR IN THE FIELD OF THE HUMANITIES of Vytautas Magnus University.
22.October 2020 Vilnius. Lithuania
THE 2020 SAKHAROV PRIZE AWARDED to the democratic opposition in Belarus
The democratic opposition in Belarus is represented by the Coordination Council, initiative of brave women (main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich, musician and political activist Maryia Kalesnikava, and political activists Volha Kavalkova and Veranika Tsapkala), as well as political and civil society figures (video blogger and political prisoner Siarhei TsikhanouskiAles Bialiatski, founder of the Belarusian human rights organisation Viasna, Siarhei DyleuskiStsiapan Putsila, founder of the Telegram channel NEXTA, and Mikola Statkevich, political prisoner and presidential candidate in the 2010 election).
TAORMINA AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE 2020
2020 OPEN SOCIETY PRIZE
Budapest, June 27, 2020 – Central European University
RAW in WAR honoured Binalakshmi Nepram and Svetlana Alexievich with the 2018 Anna Politkovskaya Award 

2018 Anna Politkovskaya Award

ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA AWARD — RAW IN WAR

PREMIO CRÉDIT AGRICOLE FRIULADRIA «LA STORIA IN UN ROMANZO 2019». Italy. Venice (Pordenonelegge)
MEDAL TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BELARUSIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC “In the year of the 100th anniversary of the Belarusian People’s Republic for special merits in Belarusian literature”
Мінск. 2019
HONORARY CENTRAL EUROPEAN. Bratislava. Slovakia. 17. November 2018
BRONZE MEDAL FOR THE 2017 ARTHUR ROSS BOOK AWARD. 2017. USA
GOLDEN PLATE AWARDEES ̶ ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT 2017. США

© Photo Elena Scott

BRONZE MEDAL FOR THE 2017 ARTHUR ROSS BOOK AWARD. 2017. USA

DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA AT THE UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE. 2017. Switzerland
“NEW CULTURE OF NEW EUROPE” AWARD AFTER STANISLAW WINCENT. 2017. Poland
PREMIO ISCHIA INTERNAZIONALE PER I DIRITTI UMANI — INTERNAZIONALE DI GIORNALISMO. 2017. Italy
DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV-MOHYLA ACADEMY 2016. Ukraine
Ryszard Kapuściński Award 2015

Ryszard Kapuściński Award 2015

RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI AWARD. Polan. Warsaw. 2015
Sviatlana Aleksievich has become a two-time Ryszard Kapuściński prize winner.

ПРИЗ ЧИТАТЕЛЬСКИХ СИМПАТИЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРНОЙ ПРЕМИИ “БОЛЬШАЯ КНИГА”
Москва. Россия. 2014
OFFICIER D’ORDRE DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES DE LA REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE.
France. 2014
PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE MASI GROSSO D’ORO VENEZIANO. Italy. 2014
PIÓRA WOLNOŚCI (ПЕРО СВОБОДЫ). 2013. Poland
BRAND PERSONA
2013. Minsk. Belarus
LAUREATES PRIX MÉDICIS ESSAI
2013. Paris. France
MEILLEUR LIVRE DE L’ANNÉE
2013. Paris. France
FRIEDENSPREIS DES DEUTSCHEN BUCHHANDELS. Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main, 2013

© Photo M. Kabakova

FRIEDENSPREIS DES DEUTSCHEN BUCHHANDELS.

Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main, 2013

THE ANGELUS CENTRAL EUROPEAN LITERATURE AWARD 2011

© Photo Mirosław Koch

The Angelus Prize has been awarded for The Polish edition of Alexievich’s book “War’s Unwomanly Face” (“Wojna nie ma w sobie nic z kobiety”, translated by Jerzy Czech, published by Czarne, Wołowiec)

Photo: Natalja Gorbanewskaja & Svetlana Alexievich
RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI AWARD. 2011

© Photo Mirosław Koch

ПРЕМИЯ
РЫШАРДА КАПУСТИНСКОГО. 2011
. Варшава. Польша

На фотографии:
в середине Светлана Алексиевич и Алисия Капустинская после вручения премии
OXFAM NOVIB – PEN AWARD. Holland. 2007
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE PRIZE (NBCC ), New York, 2006
PREMIO SANDRO ONOFRI PER IL REPORTAGE NARRATIVO. Italy. Rome, 2002
ERIC-MARIA-REMARQUE-FRIEDENSPREIS.
Germany. Osnabruck. 2001
HORSPIEL. ROBERT GEISENDORFER PREIS (der Horfunkpreis), Deutsche Akademie der Darstellende Kunste.
Germany. Berlin, 2000
“TEMOIN DU MONDE”, RFI. France. Paris. 1999
HERDER – PREISE, Alfred Toepfler Stiftung. Germany. Vienna. 1999
Вручение премии Leipziger Buchpreis. Слева направо: Светлана Алексиевич, президент ФРГ Роман Герцог, 1999

Leipziger Buchpreis

LEIPZIGER BUCHPREIS ZUR EUROPAISHEN VERSTANDIGUNG. Germany, Leipzig. 1998

Leipziger Buchpreis. From left: Svetlana Alexievich, Bundespresident Roman Herzog (President of Germany), 1999
“DAS POLITISCHE BUCH”. Sonderpreis der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Verleger, Buchhändler und Bibliothekare in der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Germany. Bremen. 1998
“THE MOST FRANKLY MEN”, “Glasnost” Found. Russia. Moscow. 1998
“TRIUMPH”, Russia. Moscow. 1997
ANDREY SINIAVSKY PRIZE – “For Honor and Respect in Literature”. Russia. Moscow. 1997
KURT TUCHOLSKI – PREIS. Swedish PEN, Stockholm. 1996
KOMSOMOL PRIZE, USSR. Moscow. 1986
KONSTANTIN FEDIN PRIZE, USSR. Moscow. 1985
NIKOLAJ OSTROVSKY PRIZE, USSR. Moscow. 1985