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Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel prize in literature

Belarusian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded the 2015 Nobel prize in literature.

Swedish Academy stated that her work was a “monument to suffering and courage in our time”.

Alexievich was born on the 31 May 1948 in the Ukrainian town Ivano-Frankovsk. Her father is Belarusian and her mother is Ukrainian.