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).A lokacin aikinta a aikin jarida, Alexievich ya ƙware a cikin ƙirar labarun da aka kafa a kan shaidu. A cikin tsari, ta rubuta tarihin maganganu na abubuwan da suka faru a tarihin Soviet: yakin duniya na biyu, yakin Afghanistan, rushewar Soviet Union, da kuma bala'in Chernobyl. Bayan tsanantawar siyasa ta gwamnatin Lukashenko, ta bar Belarus a shekara ta 2000.
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