The Swedish Academy announced that Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk is the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, and Austrian writer Peter Handke is the winner of the 2019 prize. They did not select a winner last year after a sexual misconduct scandal within the academy in 2017. The academy says Tokarczuk, 57, won the award for “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.” Tokarczuk won the 2018 Booker International for Flights, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award for translated literature. Her book Drive […]
