Nobel in Literature: A scandal, two years’ Nobels, and why these authors were chosen | Explained News, The Indian Express

Nobel in Literature: A scandal, two years’ Nobels, and why these authors were chosen | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: October 11, 2019 9:36:56 am

Nobel in Literature: A scandal, two years’ Nobels, and why these authors were chosen

For the current year, Handke was awarded “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”.

Olga Tokarczuk (right) for 2018 and Peter Handke for 2019.

ON THURSDAY, the Swedish Academy announced the Nobel Prize in Literature for this year as well as the last, with Polish author Olga Tokarczuk winning for 2018 and the Austrian author Peter Handke for 2019. The 2018 award had been postponed for a year on account of a scandal involving the Academy’s close ties with a man convicted of rape and jailed that year.