Nobel Prize Literature – 2019
October 11 , 2019
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- Austria’s Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- He won the price for his influential work in exploring the specificity of human experience.
- Some of the famous works of Peter Handke include
- Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (1970; The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick)
- Die linkshändige Frau (1976; The Left-Handed Woman)
- Wunschloses Unglück (1972; “Wishless Un-luck”; Eng. trans. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams)
2018 Prize
- The postponed 2018 Nobel Prize for literature award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk.
- Olga Tokarczuk is the 15th woman to win the Nobel Literature Prize.
- She had also won the International Booker Prize in 2018 for her work “Flights”.
- Some of her famous works include
- Primeval and Other Times
- Księgi Jakubowe (The Books of Jacob)
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