Svetlana Alexievich is the Nobel Prize for Literature 2015, announced on Thursday the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. The Belarusian is the 112 writer to be awarded the most important literary distinction, which in 1998 was given to the Portuguese José Saramago.
Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Academy (the first woman in this position), highlighted the “polyphonic work” of Alexievich. “A memorial to the suffering and courage of our time.”
In the Swedish public television SVT, Sara Danius revealed that just talk to journalist and writer and she only said one word: ” Fantastic! “writes AFP.
Svetlana Alexievich, born in 1948 in Minsk, Belarus, is considered one of the most prestigious authors to write about the former USSR. This year was published by Porto Editora his latest book, The End of Soviet Man – A Disenchantment time (work of 2012), which earned him the Medici Prize Essay in 2013 and was . named Best Book of the Year by the magazine Lire
In the introduction to the book titled “Notes of an accomplice” the author wrote: “We parted from Soviet times this our life. . I will try to honestly listen to all the participants of the socialist drama … [...] In just over seventy years in the laboratory of Marxism-Leninism created a special human type – Homo sovieticus . [...] I found in young streets with the hammer and sickle and the portrait of Lenin sweatshirts. Do they know what is communism? ” (p. 17).
In 2016 the Portuguese publisher Elsinore will publish in Portuguese Chernobyl Voices (still working title) will mark will mark the 30th anniversary of the disaster nuclear in that area of the former Soviet Union.
It is translated into 22 languages and some of his works have been adapted to theater and documentaries parts. Alexievich received, among other distinctions, the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize in 2001 and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006.
He studied at the University of Minsk between 1967 and 1972. He worked several years as a journalist to publish his first work, War’s Unwomanly Face in 1985, which was based on hundreds of interviews with women who participated in World War II.
Last year the honor was awarded to the French writer Patrick Modiano. The prize has a cash value of eight million Swedish kronor (about 877,000 euros). In 2012, the Academy has reduced the premium ten million Swedish kronor (about one million euros) to the current value.
The usual, and old favorites bookmakers, pointed this year the Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich (published in Portugal by Porto Editora) as the favorite to succeed Modiano. Already in 2013, Alexievich was the name of what was said.
Along with authors have considered eternal candidates for the Nobel as the Japanese Haruki Murakami or the Americans Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates. António Lobo Antunes is also a recurring name in this race betting -. that rarely hit
Alexievich thus becomes the 14th woman to be awarded the Nobel Literature. From 1901 have been awarded the Nobel Literature 112 writers. José Saramago is so far the only Portuguese author to receive this Nobel Prize for Literature.
This is the fourth prize awarded by the Swedish Academy this year after Nobel Medicine (William Campbell and Satoshi Omura), Physics (Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald,) and chemistry (Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar). Friday will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee
-. The Nobel Prize (NobelPrize) October 8, 2015
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