The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Austrian author Peter Handke, while the 2018 award, postponed from last year, was given to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk.
The 2018 and 2019 laureates were named at the same time because last year’s prize was postponed over a scandal involving a husband of an academy member.
Handke won the award "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
And Tokarczuk will take home the award "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life. For more than a century, the Nobel Prize in Literature has often been a polarizing spectacle, with critics denouncing the winners as too obscure, too Eurocentric, too male, too experimental, or simply unworthy of literature’s highest honor.
The Swedish Academy, which oversees the prestigious award, suspended it last year after a sexual assault scandal.
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