SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Author Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize winner in literature from Belarus, photographed at the Mornington Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, on Maarch 24, 2025.Photo: Alexander Mahmoud / DN / TT / Code: 3524** SVD OUT **

SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Author Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize winner in literature from Belarus, photographed at the Mornington Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, on Maarch 24, 2025.Photo: Alexander Mahmoud / DN / TT / Code: 3524** SVD OUT **

SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Author Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize winner in literature from Belarus, photographed at the Mornington Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, on Maarch 24, 2025.Photo: Alexander Mahmoud / DN / TT / Code: 3524** SVD OUT **

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 24, 2025, for a reading at Dramaten on Belarus's Independence Day. A day that is no longer celebrated in her home country.Photo: Viktoria Bank / TT / Code 12190

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 24, 2025, for a reading at Dramaten on Belarus's Independence Day. A day that is no longer celebrated in her home country.Photo: Viktoria Bank / TT / Code 12190

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 24, 2025, for a reading at Dramaten on Belarus's Independence Day. A day that is no longer celebrated in her home country.Photo: Viktoria Bank / TT / Code 12190

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 24, 2025, for a reading at Dramaten on Belarus's Independence Day. A day that is no longer celebrated in her home country.Photo: Viktoria Bank / TT / Code 12190

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 24, 2025, for a reading at Dramaten on Belarus's Independence Day. A day that is no longer celebrated in her home country.Photo: Viktoria Bank / TT / Code 12190

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 24, 2025, for a reading at Dramaten on Belarus's Independence Day. A day that is no longer celebrated in her home country.Photo: Viktoria Bank / TT / Code 12190

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

AUTHOR SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH

Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 24, 2025, for a reading at Dramaten on Belarus's Independence Day. A day that is no longer celebrated in her home country.Photo: Viktoria Bank / TT / Code 12190

Swedish Academy chair discusses Nobel laureate Alexievich's work

Swedish Academy chair discusses Nobel laureate Alexievich's work

Sara Danius, chair of the Swedish Academy, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Stockholm on Dec. 9, 2015. She emphasized the significance of Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich's work that has brought back memories of people's suffering in war and nuclear accidents. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate to visit Fukushima in Spring 2016

Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate to visit Fukushima in Spring 2016

Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, known for her nonfiction work on the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, gives a press conference in Stockholm on Dec. 6, 2015, before attending the ceremony to receive the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Referring to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, Alexievich said she plans to visit Fukushima in the spring of 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate to visit Fukushima in Spring 2016

Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate to visit Fukushima in Spring 2016

Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, known for her nonfiction work on the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, gives a press conference in Stockholm on Dec. 6, 2015, before attending the ceremony to receive the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Referring to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, Alexievich said she plans to visit Fukushima in the spring of 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Photo taken June 9, 2015, shows Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature on Oct. 8, 2015. The 67-year-old Alexievich, known for her nonfiction works on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, became the 14th female Nobel laureate in literature, with the prize judges hailing her works as "a monument to suffering and courage in our time." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Photo taken June 9, 2015, shows Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature on Oct. 8, 2015. The 67-year-old Alexievich, known for her nonfiction works on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, became the 14th female Nobel laureate in literature, with the prize judges hailing her works as "a monument to suffering and courage in our time." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Nobel-winning Belarusian author's books hard to buy in Japan

Nobel-winning Belarusian author's books hard to buy in Japan

Photo taken on June 9, 2015, shows Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature for her portrayal of life in the former Soviet Union. Her books are difficult to buy in Japan because a local publisher's right to print her works has expired. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Nobel Prize-winning writer Alexievich gives lecture in Tokyo

Nobel Prize-winning writer Alexievich gives lecture in Tokyo

Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015, gives a lecture at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies on Nov. 28, 2016. The 68-year-old Alexievich, best known for her work "Chernobyl Prayer," said she visited Fukushima Prefecture on Nov. 26-27 to meet people affected by radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where she saw with her own eyes there is "no resistance culture" in Japanese society. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Nobel Prize-winning writer Alexievich gives lecture in Tokyo

Nobel Prize-winning writer Alexievich gives lecture in Tokyo

Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015, gives a lecture at the University of Tokyo in the Japanese capital on Nov. 25, 2016. The 68-year-old Alexievich, best known for her work "Chernobyl Prayer," said that in an age of confusion when democracy can break down easily, it is important not to lose imagination. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Nobel Prize-winning writer Alexievich gives lecture in Tokyo

Nobel Prize-winning writer Alexievich gives lecture in Tokyo

Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015, gives a lecture at the University of Tokyo in the Japanese capital on Nov. 25, 2016. The 68-year-old Alexievich, best known for her work "Chernobyl Prayer," said that in an age of confusion when democracy can break down easily, it is important not to lose imagination. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo