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BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 10: Belarussian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich arrives at a press conference two days after winning the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature on October 10, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Alexievich has written books that, mainly through testimony from individuals, deal with emotional periods in the history of the Soviet Union, including women in the World War II Soviet Army, the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Her works are banned in her native Belarus. (Photo by Axel Schmidt/Getty Images)

BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 10:  Belarussian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich arrives at a press conference two days after winning the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature on October 10, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Alexievich has written books that, mainly through testimony from individuals, deal with emotional periods in the history of the Soviet Union, including women in the World War II Soviet Army, the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Her works are banned in her native Belarus.  (Photo by Axel Schmidt/Getty Images)