Peter Handke gets 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, Olga Tokarczuk for 2018

The Swedish Academy is at pains to repair its reputation after a devastating scandal that saw Frenchman Jean-Claude Arnault, who has close ties to the Academy, jailed for rape in 2018

Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk on Thursday won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was delayed over a sexual harassment scandal, while Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke took the 2019 award, the Swedish Academy said.
 

Tokarczuk, considered the most talented Polish novelist of her generation, was honoured "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life".
 

Her books portray a polychromatic world perpetually in motion, with characters' traits intermingled and language that is both precise and poetic.
 

Handke meanwhile won "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored