Rumors on the death of the writer were launched by French Figaro, referring to the Twitter account of the culture minister Francoise Nissen. Later it turned out that the minister's account was fake, it was created by the Italian journalist and pranker Tommaso De Benedetti. He had previously shocked the public with false news about the death of Pope Benedict XVI and the leader of the "Islamic state" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Svetlana Alexievich herself said that she is now in Seoul and does not complain of her health. In her Twitter the author of Chernobyl Prayer wrote: "I won’t give you the satisfaction".
World media force Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich deny rumors of her death
18 мая 2017












