Peter Handke wins 2019 Nobel literature prize, and Olga Tokarczuk takes 2018’s
A sexual assault scandal led to the 2018 award being postponed
10 October 2019 - 18:10
Stockholm, Sweden — Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk was named as the 2018 winner, after a sexual assault scandal led to the 2018 award being postponed.
The Swedish Academy, which chooses the literature laureate said it had recognised Handke for a body of work including novels, essays and drama “that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”...
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