(8 Oct 2015) Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that the prize judges called "a monument to suffering and courage."
Alexievich, 67, used the skills of a journalist to create literature chronicling the great tragedies of the Soviet Union and its 1991 collapse: World War II, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the suicides that ensued from those mourning the death of Communism.
Like many intellectuals in Belarus, Alexievich supports the political opponents of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is up for re-election on Sunday.
Because of her criticism of the government, she has periodically lived abroad in a number of European cities but now lives in Minsk, the Belarusian capital.
Alexievich told at the presser she has not yet received congratulations from the president, whom she has pithily criticised for years.

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