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.”
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Tokarczuk, whom the Academy described as the writer of works “full of wit and cunning”, is understood to have been the yearlong choice for 2018. She was, said the Academy, awarded the honour “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
Reports in the aftermath of the announcement describe Tokarczuk as the ultimate foil to the conservative upheaval in Europe. She is a noted feminist and an avowed liberal in her political outlook.
In 2018, she won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights. She is the first Polish writer to have done so. Her novels are usually translated by Jennifer Croft or Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
Tokarczuk is the 15th woman to have won the literature Nobel.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian authorQUOTED FROM "THE WIRE"
Tokarczuk, whom the Academy described as the writer of works “full of wit and cunning”, is understood to have been the yearlong choice for 2018. She was, said the Academy, awarded the honour “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
Reports in the aftermath of the announcement describe Tokarczuk as the ultimate foil to the conservative upheaval in Europe. She is a noted feminist and an avowed liberal in her political outlook.
In 2018, she won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights. She is the first Polish writer to have done so. Her novels are usually translated by Jennifer Croft or Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
Tokarczuk is the 15th woman to have won the literature Nobel.
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Peter Handke
“for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
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The decision to pick Handke comes in the aftermath of the Academy’s promise to move away from the “Eurocentric and male-dominated” choices of earlier years. Handke is also infamous for his appearance at former Serbian and Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milošević’s funeral. Milošević was accused of war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia but died before the completion of his trial.
Handke, who stirred up a controversy with his opinions on the Yugoslav wars, is best known for The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick and Slow Homecoming.
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