Belarusian author and investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich, a vocal critic of totalitarianism whose writing has chronicled the lives of ordinary people crushed in some of the 20th century's most tragic events, has won the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Alexievich says Nobel literature prize awards entire Belarusian nation
Belarus' writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich leaves after giving a press conference in Minsk, on Oct. 8, 2015, following the announcement of her Nobel Literature Prize earlier in the day.
