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October 8, 2015

Belarusian Writer Svetlana Alexievich Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 
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And the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Svetlana
Alexievich, a Belarusian journalist and writer. She is best known for
giving voice to survivors of World War II, the Soviet occupation of
Afghanistan and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. She becomes the 14th
woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

 

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