Congratulations, Svetlana!
Svetlana Alexievich is the first non-fiction author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
She is basically an investigative journalist, but invents a new genre where journalism elevates to literature without any active effort from the writer. She practically does not write anything off her head. She simply gets her real-life characters - mostly victims of man-made catastrophes -to share their horrifying experiences in their authentic voices. Her role as a writer is to transcribe them accurately without altering anything in the text.
Read her Voices from Chernobyl.
Svetlana Alexievich is the first non-fiction author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
She is basically an investigative journalist, but invents a new genre where journalism elevates to literature without any active effort from the writer. She practically does not write anything off her head. She simply gets her real-life characters - mostly victims of man-made catastrophes -to share their horrifying experiences in their authentic voices. Her role as a writer is to transcribe them accurately without altering anything in the text.
Read her Voices from Chernobyl.
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