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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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