{"id":540,"date":"2015-10-08T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/?p=540"},"modified":"2015-11-03T15:57:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T00:57:58","slug":"the-2015-nobel-prize-winner-in-literature-svetlana-alexievich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/2015\/10\/08\/the-2015-nobel-prize-winner-in-literature-svetlana-alexievich\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2015 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature: Svetlana Alexievich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1b8be0;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2015\/\">Nobel<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0committee has awarded Svetlana Alexievich &#8220;for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time&#8221;. Svetlana is known for her expansive oral history writings that document the breakdown of the Soviet Union. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sara Danius, the permanent secretary to the academy explained that &#8220;For the past 30 or 40 years she\u2019s been busy mapping the Soviet and post soviet individual,\u201d and additionally, \u201cit\u2019s not really about a history of events. It\u2019s a history of emotions \u2013 what she\u2019s offering us is really an emotional world, so these historical events she\u2019s covering in her various books, for example the Chernobyl disaster, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, these are in a way just pretexts for exploring the Soviet individual and the post-Soviet individual.&#8221; and &#8220;She\u2019s devised a new kind of literary genre.\u00a0It\u2019s a true achievement not only in material but also in form.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">In the book, &#8220;<\/span><a style=\"color: #1b8be0;\" href=\"http:\/\/jlc-web.uaa.alaska.edu\/client\/uaa\/search\/detailnonmodal\/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f412$002fSD_ILS:412688\/one?qu=%22412688%22&amp;te=ILS&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CDOC_ID%7C%7C%7Cfalse\">Voices from Chernobyl<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;, Alexievich talks to hundreds of people affected in different ways by the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Another highly acclaimed book by Alexievich is\u00a0\u201cWar\u2019s Unwomanly Face\u201d (1988), based on interviews with hundreds of women who took part in World War II. Here at the Consortium Library, we have among other titles, her\u00a0book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jlc-web.uaa.alaska.edu\/client\/uaa\/search\/detailnonmodal\/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f752$002fSD_ILS:752900\/one?qu=%22752900%22&amp;te=ILS&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CDOC_ID%7C%7C%7Cfalse\">Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War<\/a>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Nobel\u00a0committee has awarded Svetlana Alexievich &#8220;for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time&#8221;. Svetlana is known for her expansive oral history writings that document the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Sara Danius, the permanent secretary to the academy explained that &#8220;For the past 30 or 40 years she\u2019s been busy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}