Nobel Prizes in Literature Awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke

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Source: New York Times

Olga Tokarczuk, a Polish author, and Peter Handke, an Austrian writer, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy announced at a ceremony in Stockholm.

Mr. Handke won this year’s prize, while Ms. Tokarczuk won the 2018 prize, which had been postponed for a year because of a scandal at the academy.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/books/nobel-prize-literature.html

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1. Tomorrow

The Nobel Peace prize.

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2. Olga Tokarczuk is an incredible writer

Just finished her novel Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead. Amazing. Flights is really good too. Hope to see more of her work translated and published in the U.S.