Svetlana Alexievich is the voice of modern Russia. Her non-fiction narratives, based on interviews with witnesses, are literary testaments of her country’s turbulent history from the Second World War to the perestroika euphoria and its disenchanting aftermath. The news that she is the receiver of this year’s Nobel prize in literature came as a rewarding surprise to every journalist in the world, not only because it reminds us that serious reporting is not dead in the Internet age, but also because it bestows a poetic quality to the journalistic endeavor. As Alexievich has put it, “I don’t just record a …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
