Nobel Academy has just announced the Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich as the literature prize laureate for 2015 "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time", according to the academy official website. For the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy has received 259 proposals, resulting in 198 nominated persons, including 36 first time nominees. The Nobel Committee for Literature sends invitation letters to persons who are qualified to nominate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Alexievich's books are described as a literary chronicle of the emotional history of the Soviet and post-Soviet person. Her most notable works in English translation are about first-hand accounts from the war in Afghanistan (Zinky Boys) and a highly praised oral history of the Chernobyl disaster (Voices from Chernobyl).
