Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke

bel Prize in literature has been awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke for year 2018 and 2019 respectively. Tokarczuk received award “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents crossing of boundaries as a form of life”, while Handke got coveted prize “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored periphery and specificity of human experience”.

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Works of Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk, born in 1962 in Sulechów in Poland, me her debut as a fiction writer in 1993 with Podróz ludzi Księgi (” Journey of Book-People”). Tokarczuk’s third vel Prawiek i inne czasy 1996 (Primeval and Or Times, 2010), was a family saga in several succeeding generations set in a mythical place. 

" magnum opus of Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk so far is impressive historical vel ‘Księgi Jakubowe’ 2014 (‘ Books of Jacob’). She has in this work showed supreme capacity of vel to represent a case almost beyond human understanding," said Foundation.

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Handke’s contribution

Peter Handke was born in Kärnten region in sourn Austria in 1942. A student of law at University of Graz, Handke dropped out of college after his first book Die Hornissen (1966), an experimental “double fiction”, got published. Handke has contributed extensively in field of vels, essays, dramatic works and screenplays.

"More than fifty years later, having produced a great number of works in different genres, 2019 Literature Laureate Peter Handke has established himself as one of most influential writers in Europe after Second World War,"  tweeted bel Prize official account.

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decision to anunce two awards

Acemy h, earlier, decided to anunce two bel Prize for literature after last year’s award got postponed due to sexual assault controversy. After controversy, Acemy elected new members for selection committee and also me amendments to include five independent external members. composition of committee was changed to ensure that member related to such controversial incidents are included.“ new system is applied to both 2018 and 2019 prizes,” said bel Foundation.

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