Austria's Peter Handke wins the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award goes to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and the 2019 award to Austrian author Peter Handke.
Tokarczuk, 57, is one of Poland's best-known authors, with a fast-growing reputation in the English-speaking world. She has been criticised by Polish conservatives — and received death threats — for criticising aspects of the country's past, including its episodes of anti-Semitism. She is also a strong critic of Poland's right-wing government.
The literature prize was canceled last year after an exodus at the exclusive Swedish Academy, which chooses the winners, following sex abuse allegations. Jean-Claude Arnault, the husband of a former academy member, was convicted last year of two rapes in 2011. Arnault allegedly also leaked the name of Nobel Prize literature winners seven times.
Anders Olsson, chair of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee, said "we are not ready to evaluable this new process yet." On Tuesday, Canadian-born James Peebles, 84, an emeritus professor at Princeton University, won the physics prize for his theoretical discoveries in cosmology together with Swiss scientists Michel Mayor, 77, and Didier Queloz, 53, both of the University of Geneva. The latter were honoured for finding an exoplanet — a planet outside our solar system — that orbits a solar-type star.
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