Nobel Prize 2019 - Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.” The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.” Olga Tokarczuk was born 1962 in Sulechów in Poland, and today lives in Wrocław. She made her debut as a fiction writer 1993 with ‘Podróz ludzi Księgi’ (‘The Journey of the Book-People’). Her breakthrough came with her third novel ‘Prawiek i inne czasy’ 1996 (‘Primeval and Other Times’, 2010). The magnum opus of Tokarczuk is the impressive historical novel ‘Księgi Jakubowe’ 2014 (‘The Books of Jacob’). Peter Handke was born 1942 in a village named Griffen, located in the region Kärnten in southern Austria. His debut novel ‘Die Hornissen’ was published in 1966. He has established himself as one of the most influential writers in Europe after the Second World War.

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