Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win Nobel prizes in literature
(The Guardian Culture News)

The Swedish Academy announced laureates for 2018 and 2019, after scandal forced last year´s award to be postponedPolish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke have both won the Nobel prize in literature.To a packed room at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Mats Malm announced Tokarczuk as 2018´s Nobel literature laureate, and Handke as 2019´s winner. Tokarczuk was cited by the committee for `a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life`, and Handke for `an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience`. Continue reading...