Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Literature prize.

Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich has won the 2015 Nobel Prize for literature.

Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the chair of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, called her writing "a monument to courage and suffering in our time".

Alexievich called the award, presented to a living writer and worth 8m kronor (£691,000), "a great personal joy."