Nobel Prize for Literature

[AgentPete]

The Nobel Prize for Literature for 2018 has been awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, while the 2019 prize goes to Austrian author Peter Handke.

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke

Award is given twice this year after the academy that decides who receives the honour was hit by scandal in 2018

www.independent.co.uk

I interviewed their Gen Sec a few years ago, may be interesting, esp re the effect winning has on writers...

Peter Englund: The Beauty and the Sorrow

litopia.com

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Interesting, for him it is the talking OR the writing.

Yes...the writers in that second category. They are the writers of the rare books with the uncommon, common touch.