Today Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich who won the 2015 Nobel
Prize in Literature, is giving a press conference in the Swedish
Academy in Stockholm.
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the author for „her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”.
Belsat TV journalist Alina Koushyk is reporting from the event.
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the author for „her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”.
Belsat TV journalist Alina Koushyk is reporting from the event.
13.06 A journalist of Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty puts a question in the Belarusian language about what else could
be done for Belarus.
Alexievich: “We should do our part, do it quietly, without despair. Your status does not help you if you live in a dictatorship. The dictatorship is primitive, as a rule, dictators are foolish people.”
Alexievich: “We should do our part, do it quietly, without despair. Your status does not help you if you live in a dictatorship. The dictatorship is primitive, as a rule, dictators are foolish people.”
13.10. A Japanese journalist asked about Svetlana
Alexievich’s opinion about nuclear power, referring to the the example
of Fukushima.
Aleчievich says that during her visit to Japan, she participated in the discussion of the problems of Chernobyl, and she was told that a similar incident would never happen i Japan, but a disaster did occur. According to her, it is another proof of the fact that people are still not able to keep control of nuclear energy. “Nuclear energy is dangerous. Sooner or later mankind will realize that they need alternative [sources of energy].”
Aleчievich says that during her visit to Japan, she participated in the discussion of the problems of Chernobyl, and she was told that a similar incident would never happen i Japan, but a disaster did occur. According to her, it is another proof of the fact that people are still not able to keep control of nuclear energy. “Nuclear energy is dangerous. Sooner or later mankind will realize that they need alternative [sources of energy].”
13.15. A Swedish journalist wonders what helps Svetlana Aleksievich continue her work, continue to write books.
“Life is very interesting. I have neverset a goal to win the Nobel. I wanted to understand who we are why we live, why people suffer again,”said the writer. Remembering her childchood, Alexievich said that when she was 10 years old and her grandmother got a pension, the woman kissed the money and cried. “I wanted to find out why people are good, but their life is bad and write about it.”
“Life is very interesting. I have neverset a goal to win the Nobel. I wanted to understand who we are why we live, why people suffer again,”said the writer. Remembering her childchood, Alexievich said that when she was 10 years old and her grandmother got a pension, the woman kissed the money and cried. “I wanted to find out why people are good, but their life is bad and write about it.”
13.20 The Nobel laureate believes the Belarusian
village to be the symbol of the country, because ‘on the one hand it is
the basis, and on the other it is incapable of reform’.
“I’m looking for the truth. It is of high importance to comprehend Russia’s new Middle Ages period”. According to Alexievich, troubled times have come to Russia again, since the reaction of the Russian authorities is very aggressive, and the Russians themselves are very happy about the country’s aggression.
“I’m looking for the truth. It is of high importance to comprehend Russia’s new Middle Ages period”. According to Alexievich, troubled times have come to Russia again, since the reaction of the Russian authorities is very aggressive, and the Russians themselves are very happy about the country’s aggression.
Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and
prose writer. She wrote narratives from interviews with witnesses to the
most dramatic events in the country, such as World War
II, Soviet-Afghan war, fall of the Soviet Union, and Chernobyl disaster.
Her first book War’s Unwomanly Face came out in 1985. It was repeatedly reprinted and sold out in more than two million copies. This novel is made up of monologues of women in the war speaking about the aspects of World War II that had never been related before.
Her most notable works in English translation are about first-hand accounts from the war in Afghanistan (Zinky Boys) and a highly praised oral history of the Chernobyl disaster (Voices from Chernobyl).
in 2000 Alexievich became the target of the Lukashenka regime: she was accused of collaborating with US intelligence agencies, her phone was tapped, and her works were no longer published.
Kilde: http://belsat.eu/en/news/belarus-nobel-prize-laureate-s-conference-in-sweden/
Her first book War’s Unwomanly Face came out in 1985. It was repeatedly reprinted and sold out in more than two million copies. This novel is made up of monologues of women in the war speaking about the aspects of World War II that had never been related before.
Her most notable works in English translation are about first-hand accounts from the war in Afghanistan (Zinky Boys) and a highly praised oral history of the Chernobyl disaster (Voices from Chernobyl).
in 2000 Alexievich became the target of the Lukashenka regime: she was accused of collaborating with US intelligence agencies, her phone was tapped, and her works were no longer published.
Kilde: http://belsat.eu/en/news/belarus-nobel-prize-laureate-s-conference-in-sweden/
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