Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature on Oct. 10 and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk was named as the 2018 winner after a sexual assault scandal led to last year’s award being postponed.
Reuters: Austria’s Handke and Poland’s Tokarczuk win Nobel literature prizes
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk during a lecture on October 10, 2019 in Bielefeld, western Germany, after she was awarded with the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize. - Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk on October 10, 2019 won the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize, which was delayed over a sexual harassment scandal, while Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke took the 2019 award, the Swedish Academy said.
