Writer Alexievich feels 'joy', Nobel win is for Belarus
Svetlana Alexievich
Minsk - Arab Today
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich said Thursday she felt "personal joy" at receiving the Nobel prize for literature, dedicating the award to her ex-Soviet homeland.
"It's not an award for me but for our culture, for our small country, which has been caught in a grinder throughout history," she told journalists at a press conference in Minsk.
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Paris - Emiratesvoice
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Singer Bruni arrives in Beirut Sunday evening
Beirut - NNA
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Paris - Emiratesvoice
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Taipei - Emiratesvoice
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Sanofi buys US haemophilia treatment
Paris - Emiratesvoice
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to 'eternal style' of late Alaia
Paris - Emiratesvoice
Two months after legendary designer Azzedine Alaia's sudden death plunged the fashion world into mourning, an exhibition in homage to the "King of Cling" opens Monday in his studios in Paris. The Tunisian-born designer, renowned for the way his clothes hugged the body, died suddenly in November aged 82, reportedly of heart failure after falling down the stairs at his home. The diminutive maverick, who ignored fashion week convention by showing when and where he wanted, in July produced his first couture collection in six years to rapturous reviews. Now some of his most iconic dresses are going on display in the glass-roofed gallery next to his studio and home in the Marais district where he used to show his creations. It includes the dress worn by supermodel Naomi Campbell, his longtime friend and muse, when she led
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