Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said.

The Swedish Academy honoured the 67-year-old “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”.

The Nobel awards week continues tomorrow with the other most closely-watched Nobel award, the peace prize. The economics prize will wrap up this year’s Nobel season on October 12.

The laureates will receive their prizes at formal ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of prize creator Alfred Nobel, a Swedish philanthropist and scientist.