The Nobel committee voted in favor of awarding Svetlana Aleksievich unanimously. “This is an outstanding writer, a great writer who created a new literary genre, going beyond the usual journalism”, – he explained the decision of the committee secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Sara Danius, which announced the name of the winner.
Svetlana Aleksievich was born May 31, 1948 in Ivano-Frankivsk. Her father, a Belarusian and Ukrainian mother. Later the family moved to Belarus, where the mother and father worked rural teachers. In 1967, Svetlana entered the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University in Minsk and graduating, she worked in regional and national newspapers, as well as literary and art magazine “Neman».
In 1985 published her book “War is not a woman’s face” – a novel about women Frontovichka. Prior to this work it had been in publishing for two years – the author was accused of pacifism and the glorification of the heroic Soviet woman. The total circulation of the book has reached 2 million copies, it was delivered a few dozen plays. Released in the same year the book “The Last Witnesses” was also dedicated to the war – from the perspective of women and children. Critics have called the two works “rediscovery of military prose».
«I fold the image of the country of the people living in my time. I would like to become a chronicle of my books, encyclopedia generations that I found and I go along with that. How did they live? What they believed? How they were killed and they killed? How would not know how to be happy, why they would not succeed “, – says Svetlana Aleksievich in an interview.
It was the chronicle of another novel about the Afghan war “Zinc boys”, released in 1989. To collect the material writer four years traveled the country and talked with former Afghan veterans and mothers of dead soldiers. For this work she was subjected to harsh criticism by the official press, and in Minsk in 1992, was even organized a symbolic “political trial” and writer of the book.
In 1997 he published another sensational product Aleksievich – “Chernobyl Prayer”. It it is a question of life after Chernobyl, about a man trying to understand and inhabit the new reality.
«Her technique – a potent blend of eloquence and wordlessness describing incompetence, heroism and sadness, – wrote newspaper The Telegraph after “Chernobyl Prayer” was published in the UK. – From the monologues of his characters a writer creates a story in which the reader can actually touch, being at any distance from the events ».
Last presently book writer “second hand Time” was published in 2013.
Her books have been published in 19 countries, according to him were put shows and movies. In addition, Svetlana Aleksievich became the winner of many prestigious awards: in 2001, the writer was awarded the prize Remarque, in 2006 – the National Critics Award (USA), in 2013 – Prize of the German Booksellers criticism. In 2014 the writer was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Arts and Letters.
The main idea of his books Svetlana Aleksievich formulated as follows: “I always want to know how many people in person. And this man in person to defend. ”
The women became laureates of the Nobel Prize for Literature 13 times. The first award was given to the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlof, and the last at this point – a native Canadian Alice Munro in 2013.
Svetlana Aleksievich was the first since 1987. The author received the Nobel Prize for Literature, who writes including in Russian. The most common bonus getting any authors writing in English (27 times), French (14 times) and German (13 times) languages. Russian writers received this prestigious award five times: in 1933, Ivan Bunin, in 1958, Boris Pasternak in 1965, Mikhail Sholokhov, in 1970, Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1987, Joseph Brodsky.
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