The Swedish Academy has named Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. It also announced that it was honoring Austrian Peter Handke with the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Academy cancelled the prize last year after many members fled the organization following sexual abuse accusations linked to it. The Academy said it awarded Tokarczuk for imaginative writing that “represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life. The Polish writer’s first published work came in 1989, a book of poetry called Cities in Mirrors. Her first novel, The Journey of the Book-People, was published in 1993. Last year, Tokarczuk became the first Polish writer to win Britain’s Man Booker Prize for International Literature for her novel Flights.
Title: Writers from Austria and Poland Win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature
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data-end-time='36958'>The Academy cancelled the prize last year after many members fled the organization following sexual abuse accusations linked to it.</span> <span data-start-time='36958' data-end-time='50479'>The Academy said it awarded Tokarczuk for imaginative writing that “represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.</span> <span data-start-time='50479' data-end-time='61125'>The Polish writer’s first published work came in 1989, a book of poetry called Cities in Mirrors.</span> <span data-start-time='61125' data-end-time='69188'>Her first novel, The Journey of the Book-People, was published in 1993.</span> <span data-start-time='69188' data-end-time='81750'>Last year, Tokarczuk became the first Polish writer to win Britain’s Man Booker Prize for International Literature for her novel Flights.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button 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