Alexievich continued to use the first-person testimonies approach when she documented the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and recorded the grief-laden accounts of the mothers who lost their sons in the conflict in her next book , " Zinky Boys . " " I need to catch a person at a moment when they have been shaken up , " Alexievich told Russia 's Ogonyok weekly magazine in 2014 . " My ear is always out on the streets . "
Как отметило жюри Шведской академии , премия присуждается за « полифоничный стиль письма , памятник страданию и мужеству в наши дни » .