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RSS FeedsNobel prize in literature: reactions after Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win - as it happened
(The Guardian Books News)

 
 

10 october 2019 17:05:02

 
Nobel prize in literature: reactions after Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win - as it happened
(The Guardian Books News)
 


After the prize was postponed last year due to a sexual harassment scandal, two Nobel medals were awardedFull story: Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win Nobel prize in literature 1.49pm BST And there we leave the literature prize for another year. (Let´s assume it is now a yearly event.)Here is my colleague Alison Flood´s news story on the prize, which will be updated throughout the day as we get reactions: Related: Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win Nobel prizes in literature 1.30pm BST One of Olga Tokarczuk´s translators has been in touch: Jennifer Croft, who most recently translated Flights (which won the 2018 Man Booker International prize).Croft says: `I´m so thrilled for Olga and so excited for all the new readers who are bound to discover her delicate, powerful, beautifully nuanced novels and short stories thanks to the prize.` Related: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk review - the ways of wanderers 1.19pm BST Handke also called for the Nobel to be abolished in 2014, saying it was a `false canonisation` of literature. `The Nobel prize should finally be abolished,` he told Austrian newspaper Die Presse, adding that though it delivered `a moment of attention, six pages in the newspaper`, he did not admire the choices. Was he just a sore loser? `Of course it´s [a prize] that bothers you, then you´re annoying yourself because you think about it. It´s so unworthy, and at the same time you´re just so unworthy of it.` 1.18pm BST The choice of Peter Handke seems incredibly strange, given the Nobel committee had shown so many indications of moving away from incendiary laureates.The Nobel committee decides to dig itself out of scandal by awarding this year`s Nobel prize in literature to an Austrian defender of Milosevic who denies that the Srebrenica massacre happened. Way to read the times, Nobel committee https://t.co/laYvRWUt0w 12.46pm BST The Austrian playwright and author is a more controversial decision than Tokarczuk. His selection come days after the Swedish Ac ...


 
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