Svetlana Alexievich

Binalakshmi Nepram, a rights activist supporting women survivors of violence in northeast India, was named on Thursday as one of two winners of an annual award recognising female human rights workers.

The 2015 Nobel season wraps up Monday with the announcement of the winner of the economics prize, which could go to research into the job market or consumer behaviour, though no obvious frontrunner stands out.

Newly-crowned Nobel Literature Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich told Europe on the eve of a presidential election in her country that Belarus was a "soft dictatorship" and the incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was all but certain to extend his two-decade grip on power.

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday congratulated dissident writer Svetlana Alexievich, an outspoken critic of her country's authoritarian regime, for her Nobel prize for literature.

Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel prize for literature today, has drawn international acclaim with her emotional accounts of the Chernobyl disaster and World War II based on witness accounts.

Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus is among the bookies' favourites for Thursday's Nobel Prize in Literature but could see herself snubbed by the Swedish Academy, the awarding body that likes to surprise.

This year's Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday at 1100 GMT, the Swedish Academy which awards the prize said today.

Binalakshmi Nepram, a rights activist supporting women survivors of violence in northeast India, was named on Thursday as one of two winners of an annual award recognising female human rights workers.

The 2015 Nobel season wraps up Monday with the announcement of the winner of the economics prize, which could go to research into the job market or consumer behaviour, though no obvious frontrunner stands out.

Newly-crowned Nobel Literature Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich told Europe on the eve of a presidential election in her country that Belarus was a "soft dictatorship" and the incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was all but certain to extend his two-decade grip on power.

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday congratulated dissident writer Svetlana Alexievich, an outspoken critic of her country's authoritarian regime, for her Nobel prize for literature.

Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel prize for literature today, has drawn international acclaim with her emotional accounts of the Chernobyl disaster and World War II based on witness accounts.

Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus is among the bookies' favourites for Thursday's Nobel Prize in Literature but could see herself snubbed by the Swedish Academy, the awarding body that likes to surprise.

This year's Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday at 1100 GMT, the Swedish Academy which awards the prize said today.