(8 Oct 2015) Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and courage.”
Alexievich, 67, used the skills of a journalist to create literature chronicling the great tragedies of the Soviet Union and its 1991 collapse: World War II, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the suicides that later ensued from those mourning the death of Communism.
Praising Alexievich's writing, Sara Danius, the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, said the author has developed a particular writing style, as well a new literary genre.
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