Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian journalist, writer and holder of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, is celebrating her 70th birthday today.
On this occasion, belsat.eu has picked out some of the best quotes of the author:
I assume that my main principle is still ‘Сome and quard a human person in yourself”
We have always been living in fear; we did get used to living in fear; it is our natural habitat – in that respect, our nation is second to none
I put a more specific question: Where would I like to live – in a great country or in a normal country?
It would be very simple if everything were only politicians’ fault
A human life is not endless. It is the remembrance that can prolong it. Only remembrance defeats time
Svetlana Alexievich was born in 1948. She graduated from the Belarusian State University, Journalism Faculty.
Svetlana Alexievich is a Soviet and Belarusian investigative journalist and prose writer. Her most notable works are War’s Unwomanly Face (monologues of women in the war speaking about the aspects of the Second World War which were hardly mentiond before), Zinky Boys (first-hand accounts from the war in Afghanistan ).
After persecution by Lukashenka regime, she left Belarus in 2000. The International Cities of Refuge Network offered her sanctuary and during the following decade she lived in Paris, Berlin and Gothenburg. In 2011 Alexievich moved back to Minsk.
In 2013, after receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade Union the writer said that the Belarusian government ‘took no notice of her’.
In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”.
Belsat TV was be the only Belarusian television channel broadcasting online the ceremony of Svetlana Alexievich receiving the Nobel award for literature. State-run Belteleradiocompany, ONT and STV ignored the event.
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Belsat made a short video of the Nobel award ceremony in Stockholm. Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, the Nobel laureate in Literature 2015, is in focus:
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