Journalist Wins 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich has  won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time made her to win the award.

• She is the 14th woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
• She is a journalist and her works based on female Russian soldiers in World War II and the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
• She was born in 1948 in the Ukrainian town of Ivano-Frankivsk.
• She was the first journalist to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• First writer from Belarus to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Books of Svetlana Alexievich includes :

War’s Unwomanly Face
The Last witnesses
Zinky Boys
Voice from Chernobyl