2015.10.08 白俄罗斯作家斯维特拉娜-阿列克谢维奇。

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The Nobel Prize and a ‘Monument to Suffering and Courage’
This year’s winner of the literature prize is the Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich.

By Krishnadev Calamur

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OCTOBER 8, 2015
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The Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature for her “polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”

Alexievich, 67, is perhaps best known for Voices From Chernobyl, which told the consequences of the nuclear disaster, and Zinky Boys, which collected accounts from the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It is rare for writers who primarily write nonfiction to win the Nobel Prize.

Born in Ukraine in 1948 to a Belarusian father and a Ukrainian mother, Alexievich and her family moved to Belarus where her parents worked as teachers. Alexievich, who studied journalism at the University of Minsk, herself worked as a teacher and as a journalist.


After graduating in 1972, she was sent to a local newspaper in Brest, near the border with Poland, because of her dissident political views. She returned to Minsk later and worked at Sel’skaja Gazeta, a local newspaper.

Her first book, War’s Unwomanly Face, published in 1985, is based on interviews with women who took part in World War II. It’s the first in her grand cycle of books, Voices of Utopia, which told of life in the Soviet Union from an individual’s perspective.

A critic of the Belarusian regime, Alexievich lives in Minsk, but she has also lived in Italy, France, Germany, and Sweden.

Winners of the Nobel Prize for literature receive 8 million kronor, about $970,000. The winner of last year’s award was the French writer Patrick Modiano.

Krishnadev Calamur is a former senior editor at The Atlantic. He is the author of Murder in Mumbai.




诺贝尔奖和 "苦难与勇气的纪念碑
今年的文学奖得主是白俄罗斯作家斯维特拉娜-阿列克谢维奇。

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2015年10月8日
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白俄罗斯作家斯维特拉娜-阿列克谢耶维奇因其 "多声部著作，是我们这个时代的苦难和勇气的纪念碑 "而被授予今年的诺贝尔文学奖。

67岁的阿列克谢耶维奇也许因讲述核灾难后果的《切尔诺贝利之声》和收集苏联在阿富汗战争中的叙述的《Zinky Boys》而最为知名。主要写非虚构作品的作家获得诺贝尔奖的情况很少。

阿列克谢耶维奇1948年出生于乌克兰，父亲是白俄罗斯人，母亲是乌克兰人，她和家人搬到了白俄罗斯，她的父母在那里当教师。阿列克谢耶维奇在明斯克大学学习新闻学，她自己也当过教师和记者。


1972年毕业后，由于她的政治观点持不同意见，她被派往靠近波兰边境的布列斯特的一家地方报纸工作。后来她回到明斯克，在当地报纸Sel'skaja Gazeta工作。

她的第一本书《战争的非女性面孔》（War's Unwomanly Face）于1985年出版，是基于对参加二战的女性的采访。这是她的大循环书《乌托邦之声》中的第一本，从个人的角度讲述了苏联的生活。

作为白俄罗斯政权的批评者，阿列克谢耶维奇住在明斯克，但她也曾在意大利、法国、德国和瑞典生活过。

诺贝尔文学奖得主获得800万克朗，约合97万美元。去年的获奖者是法国作家帕特里克-莫迪亚诺。

克里希纳德夫-卡拉穆尔是《大西洋》杂志的前高级编辑。他是《孟买谋杀案》的作者。