Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich met with Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström on Monday. Belsat.eu commend some quotations to your attention:
- I’ve been learning the history which is impossible to find in textbooks. I am interested in the human soul and emotions. No we do not care where frontlines were located; but we wonder what a young man felt he killed for the first time in his life.
- I come to a person and talk to them as a friend.
- To talk to each other is a great Slavic tradition.
- I like conversations more than books.
- This generation had two banned topics – Stalin and sex. They never mentioned sex at our first meeting. But when I was writing about someone, I met with them five or six times, and they began to trust me.
- The ‘war-generation’ women were betrayed by both the state and the men.
- A modern writer has no right to say that killing is good.
- A contemporary does not want to die. <…> But there are and will always be people with criminal consciousness. Generally, such people came to fight [to Ukraine] from Russia. And we see that it is very easy to unleash a civil war, even in Belarus.
- I do not collect horror stories, I collect human dignity in horror stories.
On December 10, at 18:30 there will be a live broadcast with interpretation into Belarusian of the 2015 Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
The state-run Belarusian Television- and Radio Company, ONT and STV channels will not broadcast the awarding ceremony.
