The Permanent Secretary

Press Release
8 October 2015

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015

Svetlana Alexievich

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2015 is awarded to the Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich

"for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."

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