(ANSA-AP) - STOCKHOLM, OCTOBER 10 - The 2018 Nobel Prize in
literature has been awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk "for
a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion
represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life," while
the 2019 prize went to Austrian author Peter Handke. Mats Malm,
the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, says Handke was
honored "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity
has explored the periphery and the specificity of human
experience."
The shortlist was made of eight names of which two were
picked for the 2018 and 2019 awards, said Anders Olsson, chair
of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy. With the glory
comes a 9-million kronor ($918,000) cash award to be shared a
gold medal and a diploma. The laureates receive them at an
elegant ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10 the anniversary of
Nobel's death in 1896 together with five other Nobel winners.
The sixth one, the peace prize, is handed out in Oslo, Norway on
the same day. (ANSA-AP).
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