Nobel Prize For Literature Goes To Handke And Tokarczuk

Literature has the power to communicate with the masses, invoking several distinct emotions among its readers through which it creates a common ground and relatable feelings among all. Through the same relevance, some writings have striking impact on its readers in a massive way that those writers have earned several accolades to their names as time passed.

Nobel Prize for Literature is one such honor that writers often dream about, and names like, George Bernard Shaw, Albert Camus, Gabriel Gracia Marquez, Ernest Hemmingway and Rabindranath Tagore have been on the list of Nobel Laureates in different times of the 20th century. Nobel Prize in different categories are presented every year, but this year there were two awards given.

Austrian novelist Peter Handke was chosen by the Sweden Academy for the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature while making up for last year’s inconvenience, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk received the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. While Handke earned the honor “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”, Tokarczuk won the award for the year 2018, “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life

After last year’s controversial allegation of sexual misconduct and conflict of interest, several members stepped down from their posts in Sweden Academy, resulting in the cancellation of 2018 Nobel Prize.

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