Belarusian Author Wins Nobel Literature Prize

Here’s a brief introduction to know about the author, whose “polyphonic writings” were dubbed “a monument to courage and suffering in our time” by Sara Danius, the Nobel chair, when the prize was announced. Her work has captured events spanning World War II, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, and the suicides that ensued from those mourning the death of Communism when the Soviet-era ended in 1991.

Professor Danius believes that not only is the material that Alexievich offered new, she also devised a new genre or form of telling the stories.

She also responded to negative comments made by a few Russian reporters and writers about her Nobel Prize. Perhaps her most acclaimed book is “War’s Unwomanly Face” (1988), based on interviews with hundreds of women who took part in the second World War.

The author stated, “I’m writing a history of human feelings”.

Late Thursday, Belarus’s Lukashenko congratulated her on her award.

The Kremlin replied. “Of course, we congratulate her But I’m sure she does not possess the information to make a positive evaluation of what is happening in Ukraine”, spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented in Moscow.

A Belarusian writer, Svetlana Alexievich, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Born on May 31, 1948 Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, ornithologist, and a prose writer.

She will be awarded with the 8 million Swedish kronor prize money at the annual award ceremony on 10 December 2015.

“It’s not an award for me but for our culture, for our small country, which has been caught in a grinder throughout history”, she said.

Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich is the 2015 Nobel Prize victor in literature. Her technique was inspired by the Russian oral storytelling tradition, The New York Times noted.

Her books have been published in 19 countries.

Alexievich later used the same technique of first-person testimonies to document the despair of mothers who lost their sons in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan-in “Zinky Boys”. “This is how I hear and see the world – as a chorus of individual voices and a collage of everyday details”, she said in an interview, according to the Guardian.

“I do not love Beria, Stalin, Putin… how low they let Russian Federation sink”.

Once again the Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to someone you most likely hadn’t heard of.

The prize is named after dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and has been awarded since 1901 for achievements in science, literature, and peace in accordance with his will.