Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, with the Swedish Academy citing her “polyphonic writing, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”
Alexievich, who had been one of the bookies’ favorites to win last year when the prize went to France’s Patrick Modiano, was born in 1948 in the Ukrainian town of Ivano-Frankivsk, which was then part of the Soviet Union. When her father finished his military service, the family moved to Belarus, where her parents worked as teachers.
Before publishing her debut 1985 work “War’s Unwomanly Face,” a vivid report of …read more
Source: European Voice
