Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich has actually left the country for therapy in Germany, her friend informed AFP Monday, after the Nobel Literature Prize winner dealt with official pressure for sustaining the opposition.
The 72-year-old author, that has actually been mobilized for wondering about by detectives after joining the resistance’s Coordination Council, has actually gone to Germany for organized treatment, her good friend Mariya Voiteshonok informed AFP.
” She will certainly return to Belarus in a month. She is not dropping her activities as a Coordination Council member,” Voiteshonok stated.
She included that Alexievich additionally intended to visit Italy where she has been granted a literary reward.
The statement of her separation comes as President Alexander Lukashenko has incarcerated or dislodged most of the country’s noticeable opposition protestors.
Understood for her Russian-language books with witness accounts of the Soviet era, including World War II and the Chernobyl catastrophe, Alexievich has always publicly opposed Lukashenko.
When she won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2015, her books were not even published in Belarus.
She has actually played a symbolic duty as a resistance number, not attending Coordination Council meetings.
She rejected to bear witness detectives that mobilized her for questioning as a witness after opening a criminal probe into the opposition’s supposed effort to seize power.
Earlier this month, she experienced intimidation after unknown men collected outside her block of apartments and sounded her door bell. Diplomats from several European nations joined her in her level as a motion of assistance.
Her assistant, Tatiana Tyurina, told Belarusian independent news website Tut.by that the author’s separation was not connected to the criminal instance.
Asked if Alexievich was emigrating, Tyurina claimed: “No, certainly not. She went off to manage her literary and individual business.”
Several members of the Coordination Council remain in jail waiting for trial after being butted in the probe.
Lukashenko held a secret launch ceremony after declaring 80% of the vote in Aug. 9 political elections, in spite of a significant wave of public assistance for the main resistance competitor, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who has actually fled to Lithuania.