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Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich
The Belarussian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2015 for her reporting of Belarus, Russia and Afghanistan. "Freedom is a state of mind and skills for living that we sadly lack", she says. James Coomarasamy asked her how winning the Prize had changed her life.
Picture shows Svetlana Alexievich (Credit: EPA/Tatyana Zenkovich)
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