Svetlana Alexievich

honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense

Catalonia International Prize

honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Sonning Prize

Anna Politkovskaya Award

Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva

Nobel Prize in Literature

Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage

War's Unwomanly Face

Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage

Second-Hand Time

DAAD Scholarship

Officer of Arts and Letters

Prix Médicis essai

Second-Hand Time

Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association

Angelus Award

Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage

War's Unwomanly Face

Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage

Second-Hand Time

Oxfam Novib/PEN Award

National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction

Voices from Chernobyl

Herder Prize

Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding

Das politische Buch

Kurt Tucholsky Prize

Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Lenin Komsomol Prize

Triumph

Andrei Sinyavsky prize

Belarusian Democratic Republic 100th Jubilee Medal

Order of the Badge of Honour