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Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexandravna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and prose writer. In 2014, she was nominated by Ural Federal University to receive the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature.She was declared winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2015 “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”.See also: Five Things You Need To Know About Nobel Prize Winner Svetlana Alexievic
years of life: 31 May 1948 present

Quotes

no ramoshas quoted2 years ago
Another thinker says, I don’t remember his name, but in effect he says: “Evil is not an actual substance. It is the absence of good, in the way that darkness is simply the absence of light."
no ramoshas quoted2 years ago
I read in a book—it was by Father Sergei Bulgakov—“It's certain that God created the world, and therefore the world can't possibly fail," and so it's necessary to “endure history courageously and to the very end."
no ramoshas quotedlast year
But that’s also a form of barbarism, the absence of fear for oneself.
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