Bayan kammala makaranta ta yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da rahoto a cikin jaridu da dama na gida kafin ta kammala karatu daga Jami'ar Jihar Belarus (1972) kuma ta zama wakilin mujallar wallafe-wallafen Nyoman a Minsk (1976). Yayin da take aiki a aikin jarida, Alexievich ta ƙware a cikin ƙirar labarai bisa ga shaidar shaidu. A cikin tsari, ta rubuta tarihin baki na abubuwan ban mamaki da yawa a tarihin Soviet: Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, Yaƙin Afghanistan, faduwar Tarayyar Soviet, da bala'in Chernobyl. Bayan tsanantawar siyasa ta gwamnatin Lukashenko, ta bar Belarus a 2000. Cibiyar Cibiyoyin Cibiyoyin Kasa da Kasa ta ba ta mafaka kuma ta zauna a cikin shekaru goma masu zuwa a Berlin, Gothenburg da Minsk.
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