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THE NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WAS AWARDED TO SVETLANA ALEXIEVITCH WRITER JOURNALIST

SHE IS FROM BELARUS AND UKRAINE


Sveltana Alexievitch Literature Nobel Prize (Source: Courtesy of Nobel Prize)
Nobel Prize Medal
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USPA NEWS - Svetlana Alexievich has won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the 14th woman to be awarded the prize. Svetlana Alexievich was born in 1948 in the Ukrainian town of Ivano-Frankivsk, to a Ukrainian mother and a Belarusian father. She is an investigation journalist and writer, renowned.
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievitch
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Svetlana Alexievich was born in 1948 in the Ukrainian town of Ivano-Frankivsk, to a Ukrainian mother and a Belarusian father. The family moved to Belarus after her father had finished his military service; Svetlana attended finishing school before working as a teacher and a journalist in Belarus.Svetlana is an investigation journalist and writer, renowned and respected by officials, of the Academy of literature and her profession. She reflected the “Soviet soul“ by conducting interviews of men, women and children.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Svetlana Alexievitch, has conducted long conversations as interviews on stories of everyday experience of female combatants in the war between the USSR and Nazi Germany. She then wrote "War is not a woman's face", her first book, published in the magazine in October 1983. Sara Danius (Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy) said that Svetlana Alexievich had been chosen "for her polyphonic writings: a monument to suffering and courage in our time“, and said she had immortalised the voices of these women: “In a few years, all of them will be gone.“recalling the several interviews she conducted especially after the drama for Tchernobyl. War´s Unwomanly Face was the first in Alexievich´s grand cycle of books, known as “Voices of Utopia“, in which she portrayed the Soviet Union from the perspective of the individual.
Nobel Prize Literature Women
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IMPORTANCE OF THE NOTORIOUS NOBEL PRIZE, ANNUAL MOST PRESTIGIOUS SINCE 1901---------------------- The Nobel Peace Prize (Norwegian and Swedish: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses Per Alfred Nobel's will, the recipient is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a 5-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. Since 1990, the prize is awarded on 10 December in Oslo City Hall each year. The prize was formerly awarded in the Atrium of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law (1947““89), the Norwegian Nobel Institute (1905““46), and the Parliament (1901““04). Source: Telegraph, Philosophie Magazine, Telerama
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