Congratulations to Sviatlana Alexievich with Nobel Prize in Literature

Doznes of col­leagues, friends, jour­nal­ists met Svi­at­lana Alex­ievich near the edi­to­r­i­al office of Nasha Niva where the writer was going to give an online inter­view.

«I am extreme­ly hap­py for Svi­at­lana as a cre­ator, as a writer, as a per­son,» said Zhan­na Litv­ina, ex-chair of BAJ.

«For me per­son­al­ly Svi­at­lana is a sub­tle con­nois­seur of a human nature. Each her line com­pels to think. She can touch the most sen­si­tive strings, raise the deep­est feel­ings of the mind. She makes her read­ers real­ize what they have only felt by intu­ition…   

Many years ago I was lucky to be togeth­er with Valiantsin Taras and Svi­at­lana Alex­ievich in Ger­many — there were also many meet­ings with the pub­lic, the read­ers. But most of all I remem­bered the min­utes free from the meet­ings, when the two intel­lec­tu­als start­ed to talk. And I, as the only lis­ten­er of the dia­logues, had the only wish — not to dis­turb the har­mon­ic flow of the thoughts, and just lis­ten.»