(8 Oct 2015) Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that chronicled the great tragedies of the Soviet Union and those that followed its 1991 collapse.
Alexievich, the 14th woman to win the literature award since 1901, used her reporting skills to create literature chronicling World War II, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and social problems like attempted suicides after the Soviet Union disintegrated.
It was the first time the Swedish Academy has honoured journalistic work, according to its permanent secretary, Sara Danius.
Danius praised the 67-year-old Alexievich as a great and innovative writer who has "mapped the soul" of the Soviet and post-Soviet people.
Like many intellectuals in Belarus, Alexievich supports the political opponents of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is up for re-election on Sunday.
Her books have been published in 19 countries, with at least five of them translated into English.
She has also written three plays and the screenplays for 21 documentary films.
Because of her Alexievich's criticism of the government, she has periodically lived abroad in a number of European cities - but she now lives in Minsk, the Belarusian capital.

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