Sergei Grits / APThe Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature for her “polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Alexievich, 67, is perhaps best known for Voices from Chernobyl, which told the consequences of the nuclear disaster, and Boys In Zink, which collected accounts from the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It is rare for writers who primarily write nonfiction to win the Nobel Prize. Born in Ukraine in 1948 to a Belarusian father and a Ukrainian mother, Alexievich and her family moved to Belarus where her parents worked as …read more
Source: The Atlantic
