Svetlana Alexievich, Ian Rankin and Stephen Fry are among the authors joining in calls for the release of Oleg Sentsov as the Ukrainian writer and filmmaker, currently held... Read more
Bela Shayevich’s "extraordinary" and "fearless" translation of Second-Hand Time by Nobel Prize in Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, has won the inaugural TA First Translation Prize.... Read more
The winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, is among the names on the 2016 longlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize (formerly... Read more
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, 67, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The chair of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, said her polyphonic writings were "a monument to suffering... Read more