"I am always looking for words of love. Hate will not save us. Only love."
- Svetlana Alexievich speaking during the 2015 Nobel Prize banquet. She turns 72 today - join us in wishing her a happy birthday.
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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award.
Grateful thanks to #NobelPrize and Wikipedia.
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