Why the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature goes to J-school

October 09, 2015 12:48

Want to win a Nobel Prize in literature? Just go to journalism school. In Minsk.

Case in point: Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature.

The Guardian's Marta Bausells described her as "the Belarusian writer whose oral histories have recorded thousands of individual voices to map the implosion of the Soviet Union.'

As Alexievich's work becomes more familiar to journalists and other non-fiction writers, it will be interesting to learn more about her research methods, her narrative strategies and her obvious manipulation of the raw material. As happens with many oral histories, such as those made famous in America by Studs Terkel, the author is not just quoting sources in a traditional sense.

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