Belarusian scoops literature award with journalistic efforts

Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.

The Swedish Academy said her achievement was "a monument to suffering and courage in our time".

Alexievich, the 14th woman to win the literature award since 1901, used her reporting skills to create literature chronicling World War II, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and social problems like attempted suicides after the Soviet Union disintegrated.