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Nobel Prize Literature – 2019

October 11 , 2019 1729 days 1193 0
  • 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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