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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich [1] (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".
Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years. [3] In 1901, the first laureate Sully Prudhomme received 150,782 SEK, which is equivalent to 8,823,637.78 SEK in January 2018. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. [4 ...
The 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Yugoslav/Serbian [1] writer Ivo Andrić (1892–1975) "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country." [2] [3] He is the first and only Serbian-speaking recipient of the literature prize. [3]
It also carried the names of literature winners Svetlana Alexievich, J.M. Coetzee and Herta Mueller, and 19 other laureates in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics. Nobel prize winners ...
The appeal was signed by three winners of the Nobel literature prize including Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, as well as by seven peace laureates and 45 winners in science and economics.
The 58 signatories include literature prize winners Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus, J.M. Coetzee, Herta Müller, and peace prize laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Oscar Arias, Jody Williams ...
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich (born 1948) "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". [1] [2] She is described as the first journalist and the first Belarusian national to receive the Nobel prize which she received on December 10, 2015. [3]
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: M. K. Ashby, Joseph Ashby of Tysoe [50] Lorne Pierce Medal: Robertson Davies [51] Miles Franklin Award: Patrick White, Riders in the Chariot; Newbery Medal for children's literature: Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins; Nobel Prize in Literature: Ivo Andrić; Premio Nadal: Juan Antonio Payno ...