The author was speaking to journalists in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, hours after the announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
At the press conference, Svetlana Aleksievitch said that people should not submit to the totalitarian system and claimed that the Nobel Literature is a personal reward, but also to the Belarusian culture and a “small country that has always lived under pressure.”
The meeting was arranged because of the reward, but the writer turned out to talk above all the political events, particularly on Russia.
Svetlana Aleksievitch, 67, was a favorite authors the Nobel Literature and, this time, the stakes were right. The Swedish Academy announced today the name of the writer, praising the writing “polyphonic, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”
Svetlana Aleksievitch is the first journalist woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and will receive the prize, worth 860,000 euros, to December 10, in Stockholm.
The academy notes that, due to the critical political positions to the regime, Aleksievitch lived in exile in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden .
Born in Soviet flag in Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine, Svetlana Aleksievitch is the daughter of a Belarusian military and Ukrainian mother. Between 1967 and 1972, the author studied journalism at the University of Minsk.
His books have been translated into 22 languages and some have been adapted for film and theater.
In 2013 was awarded with the Medici Prize Essay for the work “The end of the Soviet man” terminating a series of five volumes entitled “Voices of utopia,” which addresses the former Soviet Union (USSR) and its fall on an individual perspective.
This book was published this year in Portugal, the Porto Editora.
The series began with “War is not the face of a woman” (free translation), the first book of author, based on interviews with hundreds of women who participated in World War II (1939-45).
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