Why Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Prize Is Good for Literature

By Jonathon Sturgeon October 8, 2015 - Flavorwire

Svetlana Alexievich, nominated by Ural Federal University, has won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Committee, chaired by Per Wästberg, wisely cited the author’s “polyphonic writings,” calling her work — oral histories of lives upended by terrible events — “a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”
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