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Alexievich, chronicler of Soviet life, wins Literature Nobel

Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her portrayal of life in the former Soviet Union, which the Swedish Academy said was "a monument to suffering and courage in our time". Katharine Jackson reports.