Stockholm (AFP) – Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, honoured for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.The Swedish Academy hailed the 67-year-old for writings that were “a monument to suffering and courage in our time” — tableaux of World War II, Chernobyl and the war in Afghanistan, crafted through thousands of interviews.”By means of her extraordinary method — a carefully composed collage of human voices — Alexievich deepens our comprehension of an entire era,” it said.Alexievich dedicated the prize to her native Belarus.”It’s not an award …read more
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