Alexievich’s work straddles the divide. Nothing is more fantastic than reality.
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Alexievich, only the 14th woman to win the prize since it was first awarded in 1901, had been the top choice among literary observers and bookies.
“She transcends the format of journalism and has developed a new literary genre, which bears her trademark”.
She says “it is about women who voluntarily headed to the front line, pretty much the same conditions as the men”. She left her home in Belarus in 2000 due to persecution, and lived in refuge in various European cities over the following decade.
Scheduled to be published in October 2016, that date will most likely be brought forward to meet public demand. In a broadcast meet a while later, Danius called Alexievich “an uncommon author.?.?”. Earlier this year, she told an interviewer, “Putin is not a politician”.
It was the first time the Swedish Academy has honored journalistic work, according to its permanent secretary, Sara Danius. “I don’t have anything against her”, said the previous place grow professional. She read it, liked it and encouraged me to continue writing.
Though Alexievich was among those with the shortest odds to win the prize (alongside the more regular presences of Roth, Murakami and Oates), she still comes as a surprise for multiple reasons. “But it’s also a bit disturbing”. “Now I can not let myself slide”.
Her most recent book “Second-Hand Time” – a non-fiction work examining the legacy of the Soviet mentality over 20 years after the collapse of Communism – scooped France’s prestigious Prix Medicis essai in 2013. “I have two ideas for new books, so I’m pleased that I will now have the freedom to work on them”.
Alexievich worked as a teacher and a journalist after finishing school.
Conceived in Ukraine in 1948 not long after the end of World War II, Alexievich experienced childhood in Belarus all through the Soviet’s guideline Union.
In 1997, Alexievich published “Voices from Chernobyl: Chronicle of the Future”.
She said another way should be explored to prevent the world from becoming like what she saw after the Chernobyl disaster.
108 Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded since 1901.
The Swedish Academy on Thursday declared the name of the victor to the website of Nobel Prize saying that Svetlana got the prize “for her polyphonic writings”.
On Wednesday, Sweden’s Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the United States and American-Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research on DNA fix.
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The European Union will lift its sanctions on Belarus, including those on Lukashenko, for four months after Sunday’s vote, barring any last-minute crackdown, diplomatic sources said on Friday.
