Olga Tokarčuk and Peter Handke, winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature

The Polish writer received the award for 2018, and the Austrian writer for 2019.
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Olga Tokarchuk and Peter Handke, Photo: Reuters
Olga Tokarchuk and Peter Handke, Photo: Reuters
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Ažurirano: 10.10.2019. 14:42h

Olga Tokarčuk and Peter Handke are winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature went to a Polish author "for a narrative imagination that presents with encyclopedic passion the crossing of borders as a form of life", while the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to an Austrian writer "for an influential work that explored with linguistic ingenuity periphery and specificities of human experience".

The Swedish Academy, which awards this prestigious award, decided last year not to award the Nobel Prize for Literature, due to the scandal that broke out. The husband of one of the members of the Swedish Academy has been accused of sexual violence. After the scandal, several members resigned from the Academy, while others refused to participate in the election. This is why two laureates were announced this year.

Olga Tokarczuk was born in 1962 in Sulehów, Poland, and today lives in Wrocław. Her parents were teachers and her father was also a school librarian. She read pretty much everything she could find in the library and it was there that she developed her literary appetite.

Olga Tokarchuk
Olga Tokarchuk(Photo: Reuters)

Peter Handke was born in 1942 in the village of Griffen, in the Carinthia region in the south of Austria. From 1961 he studied law at the University of Graz, but interrupted his studies a few years later when his debut novel 'Die Hornissen' (1966) was published.

Peter Handke
Peter Handke(Photo: Reuters)

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