Svetlana Alexievich wins the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
An investigative journalist from Belarus, Alexievich is the 14th woman to win this prestigious prize and the first female Russian writer to do so.
Literature is just a fancy word for writing says Philip Gourevitch in his The NewYorker article titled Non Fiction Deserves a Nobel.
Sophie Pinkham in her article in The new Republic Referred to Alexievich as the Dostoevsky of nonfiction because of her “belief that compassion is the greatest hope for humankind…(and) Like Dostoevsky, Alexievich is concerned not only with national realities, but with universal human values.”
Alexievich focuses on stories about war, conflict and tragedy, often using the Soviet Union or former Soviet countries as the backdrop. She has written about World War II, the Soviet-Afghan War and the Chernobyl disaster.
She has been very much concerned about how women see war.
Irish director Juanita Wilson directed a short film based on Voices from Chernobyl, which was nominated for an Oscar in 2010.
Carol Balawyder 
Thanks for introducing us to this wonderful writer. Nice to see the fusion of nonfiction and literature.
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Great job, Carol! Thank you! Have a wonderful weekend, my dear friend! 🙂
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Thanks, Fabio. 🙂 Have a great weekend as well.
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Fascinating person!
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Sounds like a wonderful book to read. Thanks Carol, we need more writers like Svetlana being acknowledged for their work.
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Thanks, Carol. It’s always nice to learn a little more about different writers and their backgrounds.
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A wonderful introduction to a passionate woman. 🙂
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Excellent feature here Carol. Ironically I just read an article recently on Svetlana and the award. I’m thrilled that she won for literary nonfiction! What a great accomplishment. 🙂
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This is so interesting and thank you for highlighting her award and fascinating work. Great she is receiving such recognition and that her work will become more known.
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Lovely post Carol. Thank you x
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Compassion is needed throughout our world, especially in books do that the person’s reading will be moved to care and act upon their feelings. Lovely post, Carol. Thank you for introducing this Nobel Peace prize winner!
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The Wonderful Deer of the Eternal Hunt sounds like a book I’d enjoy immensely. So much of what we read or see in movies about war are from the man’s point of view. Men have started to portray the agony since the Vietnam War but they’re still just hitting the surface of it.
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Sounds like a book I’d also enjoy. I’m glad that she’s shifting from writing about war to writing about love. ❤
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Thanks for sharing with us!
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Thank you for bringing her to us. I would like to read her work, but when I went on Amazon War’s Unwomanly Face was listed as £999.11!
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I’m sure there’s an error…But then I checked on Amazon.com and it was over $2,000. It must be a collector’s item. I wonder if any libraries have it. Let me know, Hilary, if you find out why it’s so expensive. The reviews of the book on Goodread are excellent.
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