After much anticipation, recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2018 and 2019 have been announced. Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke have won respectively. BREAKING NEWS:The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke.#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/CeKNz1oTSB — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 10, 2019ALSO READ | Poland’s Olga Tokarczuk wins Man Booker Prize 2018AdvertisingTokarczuk has been awarded the Nobel Prize “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”. ALSO READ | Olga Tokarczuk wins Man Booker Prize 2018: Other novels by the Polish authorTokarczuk, the author of Flights, had also won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize last year.

Source: Indian Express October 10, 2019 11:36 UTC