Prize-Giving Ceremony to Be Held on the Human Rights Day

Prize-giving ceremony will be held on December 10 in Stockholm, Nasha Niva reports.

Initiatives of "Цытуй сваё!" (Quote Your Own!) with International consortium EuroBelarus, civil campaign "Будзьма беларусамі!" (Let's Be Belarusians!), the Flying University, Belarusian courses "Мова нанова" (Language Anew), and the Belarusian Collegium involved, offers to celebrate this event.

The initiative proposes to hold some kind of a flashmob from December 10 to 13. "It starts on the ceremony day and continues until the Commemoration Day of Holy Lucia. It's an ancient holiday in Sweden," the statement says.

What do organizers suggest to do?

""To organize viewing the live broadcast of the ceremony on a public site or together with friends (December 10) or to view a record of it, they write. - We offer to candle the space during the ceremony, so that it could be associated with author's name and the symbol of the holiday - with some light events in our country.

Before or after the ceremony it is possible to read excerpts from Alexievich's works. It could be a special event.

It would be nice to organize "a mail box" for congratulations. Everyone will be able to put his/her postcards, letters or a note with congratulations. Such mail boxes may be equipped since December 10 or even earlier up to December 24. Then we will collect all messages and give them to Sviatlana.

Everybody may post videos, photos and congratulations with hashtags #nobelrazam and #нобельразам on social networks, and we will collect them on Facebook and VKontakte.

It should be reminded that On October 8 it became known that Sviatlana Alexievich became a Nobel Prize Winner for Literature - 2014. The Award was broadcasted live on an official Nobel Prize web-site.

Works of Sviatlana Alexievich are in fact prohibited and were hardly published in Belarus. The writer had to leave the country because of a conflict with the government.