Belarus Russin Wins Nobel Prize for Literature – Telegraaf.nl

STOCKHOLM –

The Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexijevits has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. She wrote among others The end of the red man, about the demise of the communist era in Russia

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The White-Russian deserves the prize for her “polyphonic work, a monument to suffering and courage in our time,” said the jury of the Swedish Academy, which decides the winner.

Alexijevitsj says in a reaction to feel extremely honored with the awarding of the prize. “It’s very important to get this award,” she told the Swedish channel SVT. The author says it found an honor to be named the same breath as important writers like Boris Pasternak, Russian writer who was awarded the prize in 1958.

By the Nobel Juror her called to tell the news she said only “fantastic”.

The current publisher Alexijevitsj in the Netherlands, the Busy Bee. Who gave late last year, her most recent book, The End of the red man. “The writer is not very well known in our language,” says director Henk Pröpper. “I heard at the Frankfurt Book Fair by fellow publishers that it was a good book.” Of the bound book are sold in the Netherlands 2000 to 3000 copies. Starting next week there is a paperback edition in bookstores.

Pröpper admire the author for her “kaleidoscopic” way of working, which they approach issues from different angles. “Whether it’s Afghanistan or the Chernobyl disaster goes, she talks to hundreds of people and record their voices. She gives voice to the suffering, in her books on large, heavy items. You’re not happy there but you learn a lot about mankind “

In 2006 with another publisher her best known book We like Chernobyl in a Dutch translation

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