Sara Danius,
permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announces Svetlana
Alexievich from Belarus as the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in
Literature
Svetlana Alexievich(67) used the skills of a journalist to create literature chronicling the great tragedies of the Soviet Union and its collapse: World War II, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the suicides that ensued from the death of Communism.
Svetlana Alexievich's first novel, "The Unwomanly Face of the War," published in 1985 and based on the previously untold stories of women who had fought against the Nazi Germans, sold more than 2 million copies.
Her books have been published in 19 countries. She also has written three plays and the screenplays for 21 documentary films.
The Swedish Academy cited Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."
Each year the Swedish Academy sends out requests for nominations of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature
Members of the Academy, members of literature academies and societies, professors of literature and language, former Nobel literature laureates, and the presidents of writers' organizations are all allowed to nominate a candidate
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 was awarded to Patrick Modiano "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation".
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in
literature on Thursday Oct 08,2015 for works that the prize judges called "a
monument to suffering and courage."
Svetlana Alexievich(67) used the skills of a journalist to create literature chronicling the great tragedies of the Soviet Union and its collapse: World War II, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the suicides that ensued from the death of Communism.
Svetlana Alexievich's first novel, "The Unwomanly Face of the War," published in 1985 and based on the previously untold stories of women who had fought against the Nazi Germans, sold more than 2 million copies.
Her books have been published in 19 countries. She also has written three plays and the screenplays for 21 documentary films.
The Swedish Academy cited Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."
Books by Svetlana Alexievich translated in different languages are on display at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, where she was announced winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel,produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"
Each year the Swedish Academy sends out requests for nominations of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature
Members of the Academy, members of literature academies and societies, professors of literature and language, former Nobel literature laureates, and the presidents of writers' organizations are all allowed to nominate a candidate
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 was awarded to Patrick Modiano "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation".
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