Svetlana Aleksijevitsj awarded Nobel Prize for Literature 2015

Sara Danius announced, on behalf of the Nobel Prize committee, that the Nobel Prize for Literature 2015 will go to Belarusian author Svetlana Aleksijevitsj.
Alexijevitsj is a Belarusian writer and research journalist. She wrote successful books about the WW II, the Sovjet war in Afghanistan and the Tsjernobyl disaster. The jury says she has been able to record emotions about historic events through interviews with thousands of witnesses. The Nobel Prize Committee awarded the prize ´for her polyphonic writings, a monument so suffering and courage in our time.´

Three novels by Aleksijevitsj (1948) have been published in Dutch. The end of last year Second Hand Time was published, Voices from Chernobyl was published in 2006 and Enchanted with Death in 1995.