Svetlana Alexievich wins The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2015

Alexievich, 67, is best known for her deeply researched books based on hundreds of interviews, such as War’s Unwomanly Face, about Russian women who served as soldiers in World War II.

“She transcends the format of journalism and has developed a new literary genre that bears her trademark”, Danius said.

“For the past 30 or 40 years she’s been busy mapping the Soviet and post-Soviet individual”. “It’s a true achievement not only in material but also in form”. “And at the same time, she’s offering us a history of emotions, a history of the soul”. Because of her criticism of the government she has periodically lived overseas in a number of European cities but now lives in Minsk, the Belarusian capital.

Alexievich was influenced by Belarusian author Ales Adamovich.

Scheduled to be published in October 2016, that date will most likely be brought forward to meet public demand. She said she loves Belarus and the Ukrainian nation.

In separate comments to daily Svenska Dagbladet, she said the prize would help the fight for freedom of expression in Belarus and Russian Federation.

“I think nobody loves the truth”. “There is a kind of lingering snobbery in the literary world that wants to exclude non-fiction from the classification of literature – to suggest that somehow it lacks artistry, or imagination, or invention by comparison to fiction”. She has conducted thousands of interviews of people from all age groups. She primarily writes about historical events using a series of eye-witness accounts.

It sold more than two million copies.

She was at home “doing the ironing” when the academy called.

“This wailing about a “great national idea” or a desire to make Russian Federation an Orthodox Iran… is a path going backwards”, she told Ogonyok. “Each person offers a text of his or her own”.

Author and journalist Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. “On the one hand, it’s such a fantastic feeling”.

“I do only one thing: I buy freedom for myself”.

Svetlana Alexievich said she believes that a lot had happened to Belarus over the course of its history.

Her family later moved to Belarus, where both her parents worked as teachers.

Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian columnist and storyteller of daily living in a later after the Soviet Union, finished the Nobel Prize for studies in these days. Although mostly unknown in the USA, Alexeivich’s books are sure to attract intense interest now.

In 1997, Alexievich published “Voices from Chernobyl: Chronicle of the Future”. But its decisions have often sparked political reactions, particularly during the Cold War.

The Nobel Prize is worth close to $1 million.

Winners are awarded a monetary prize that varies slightly in amount from year to year.

She has also weighed into the debate over the crisis in Ukraine by praising protestors who ousted Kremlin-backed leader Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 for trying to shatter the links with the country’s Soviet history.

The Nobel Prize is the latest and most prestigious of a string of awards Alexievich has received for her work.