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[Oersted]

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Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the chair of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, called her writing "a monument to courage and suffering in our time".

Alexievich, 67, is a political writer who has often been critical of her home country's government.

It has been half a century since a writer working primarily in non-fiction won the Nobel - and Alexievich is the first journalist to win the award.

Her best-known works in English translation include Voices From Chernobyl, an oral history of the 1986 nuclear catastrophe; and Boys In Zink, a collection of first-hand accounts from the Soviet-Afghan war.

"By means of her extraordinary method - a carefully composed collage of human voices - Alexievich deepens our comprehension of an entire era," the Swedish Academy said.

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[Oersted]

You can find here website here:

http://alexievich.info/indexEN.html

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Added a few books to my wishlist. Going to read them during break.

 

[Ashes]

Congrats. Only the fourteenth woman to have won this prize I believe.

 

[cameron]

Added a few books to my wishlist. Going to read them during break.

Ditto.

Voices from Chernobyl and Zinky Boys both look interesting.

 

[Oersted]

Congrats. Only the fourteenth woman to have won this prize I believe.

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[El Topo]

Small bump so this is not forgotten.

I'm not too educated in the field of literature, so I admit that I had never heard of her before, but her work seems interesting (and unusual for the Nobel Prize for literature). Seems like a great choice, even though some might have preferred a different winner.

 

[drtomoe123]

And fucking Murakami is robbed again.