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Nobel Prize for literature

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There was no prize awarded in 2018 because the Nobel people were embroiled in a sex scandal, so this year two prizes were awarded handed out:

Stockholm — Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes for literature on Thursday. The double prizes came after a year's hiatus due to sex abuse allegations that rocked the secretive Swedish Academy, which selects the laureates.

Tokarczuk won for works that explore the "crossing of boundaries as a form of life," the academy said Thursday.

Handke's work was described as exploring "the periphery and the specificity of human experience" with linguistic ingenuity.

cbsnews.com/news/nobel-prize-literature ... x-scandal/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Tokarczuk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Handke

I don't read many translations, but I did see a movie that Handke co-wrote. Wings of Desire. A really, really good movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire
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