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Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature 2015, received the award this week. The Nobel Prize Foundation has published the Belarusian journalist’s acceptance speech.
The committee selected the author “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Here is an excerpt from the lecture:
I do not stand alone at this podium… There are voices around me, hundreds of voices. They have always been with me, since childhood. I grew up in the countryside. As children, we loved to play outdoors, but come evening, the voices of tired village women who gathered on benches near their cottages drew us like magnets. None of them had husbands, fathers or brothers.
