.NobelPrizes' 2018 and 2019 laureates have been announced:
for a refresher), the 2018 Nobel Prize winner in Literature has finally been announced in conjunction with 2019’s winner.
Olga Tokarczuk has been announced as the long-awaited 2018 laureate, while Austrian author Peter Handke was awarded the award for 2019.and the forthcoming novel, coming in the fall of 2020. Geoffrey Kloske, VP, Publisher of Riverhead Books says “I am thrilled at this recognition for novelist Olga Tokarczuk. While the political issues she takes on are urgent and provocative, her writing is shot with unexpected humor, captivating storylines and shimmering language.
The 2019 selection of Austrian playwright and novelist Handke, meanwhile, has already provoked controversy of its own, largely for Handke’s past support of former Serbian president Slobodan Miloševic. Handke, who has Slovene roots on his maternal side, was cited for “an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.
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