The 2019 Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke where as the 2018 Nobel has been awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk.
Handke has been honoured the prestigious award “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
Tokarczuk – who won the 2018 Man Booker International prize for her novel Flights – was awarded Nobel this year “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
BREAKING NEWS:
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke.#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/CeKNz1oTSB— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 10, 2019
Each winner will receive over $910,000 in prize money and the international acclaim accompanying recognition as a Nobel Laureate.
