Aleksievich to donate prize money for struggle against nuclear power
The writer plans to distribute her books "in the area where Lukashenka is going to build a nuclear power plant."
On October 13, Svyatlana Aleksievich got the International Peace Prize of German Booksellers for 2013. The fund of the prize is 25 thousand euros.
The BelaPAN news agency informs that the awarding ceremony took place in St.Paul's Church in Frankfurt. The writer made a nearly half-an-hour speech there. Aleksievich told about eh process of creation of her most famous works and expressed her attitude to the situation in Belarus and Russia today.
In her opinion, after the relatively free 1990s the things that seemed to have passed long ago became a reality again: communist ideas and harassment for nonconformity. "We thought that Communism was dead but it turned up a chronic disease," Aleksievich said. She reminded about thousands of young people who came out to Minsk streets after the presidential election in 2010.
65-year-old writer plans to use the award money for further work. According to the German news agency DPA, she plans to distribute her books "in the area where Lukashenka is going to build an NPP".
