Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk Win Nobel Prizes for Literature

Austria’s Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk.
Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk Win Nobel Prizes for Literature
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk (L) and Austrian author and director Peter Handke. Michele Tantussi/Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters
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Austria’s Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the Swedish Academy said on Oct. 10.

Two Nobels were awarded this year after last year’s prize was postponed over a scandal that led to the husband of an Academy member being convicted of rape.