Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Literature prize
Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich has won the 2015 Nobel Prize for literature. The prize committee called her writing a monument to courage and suffering in our time. The award presented to a living writer is worth eight million kronor (691, 000). Previous winners include literary giants Rudyard Kipling and Ernest Hemingway and French historical author Patrick Modiano who won in 2015. Alexievich is a political writer who is critical of her home country s government. Her best kn
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