Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for this year 2015.
It was given to her for her "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"
I wrote this about her last year considering her to be a candidate for the Prize:
'Svetlana Aleksijevitj was born in the Ukraine and has written about the Chernobyl disaster in her book Voices From Chernobyl as well as about the Afganistan war, Boys of Zinc, and World War II, The Unwomanly Face of the War and Last Witness: the Book of Unchildlike Stories. Her technique of 'mixing eloquence and wordlessness' conveys the rawness of a world reduced of humanity, in a dangerous atmosphere with political and media silence over important events. She has been persecuted as well as prolific giving her the mettle of a Nobel Prize Winning candidate.'
She is the fourteenth female Nobel Prize winner for Literature.
This blog may has it's quiet periods but it will always try to cover the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature each year.
Congratulations Svetlana for your achievement!
