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Olga Tokarczuk for 2018, and Peter Handke is 2019 winner

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and the Austrian Peter Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. is won

Two winners were named - One for 2019, And One for 2018 - because the award was not presented last year.

The Swedish Academy, which continued the supervision of the prestigious award, in the year 2018 After a sexual assault scandal.

Tokarczuk, which was also awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize , with the Nobel Prize to Handke.

The 76-year-old Austrian playwright, writer and poet, was recognized as "an influential work with the linguistic ingenuity, explores the peripheral and the particularities of the human experience," The Academy said in a Statement .

for his support for The Serbs in the 1990s, the Yugoslav war, and the, which was accused of speaking of genocide and other war crimes.

Pen America said it was dumbfounded "by The Selection of a writer to offer his public voice to the historical truth", in a Statement by its President, Jennifer Egan .

winners receive a medal, a certificate and £to 740,000 in prize money,

In the year 2014, Handke even called for the Nobel Prize for literature be abolished, saying it brings its winners of the "wrong canonicalization" together with "One moment of attention [and] six pages in the newspaper".

Both winners have agreed to receive their awards this year, however, organizers said. Everyone receives nine million Swedish crowns (£740,000), as well as a medal and a diploma.

in the year 2018, the Nobel Prize was delayed for a year After a crisis in The Academy was triggered by the allegations against Jean-Claude Arnault, The Husband of Academy member Katarina Frostenson . He was sentenced to two years in prison in October, After he was convicted of rape.

Frostenson stepped back and the events also led to allegations of conflict of interest, and the outlet of the Nobel-prize-winners' names. Everything was reduced", the confidence of the public in The Academy ," according to the awards body.

Handke's praise and controversy, Handke was met by protests when he received The International Ibsen Award in Oslo in 2014

Handke, credited as One of The Most thought-provoking writers of the German Language , burst onto the literary scene in the 1960s and "has for several decades One of The Most influential writers of contemporary Science fiction," the Nobel judges said.

His best-known works include grief Over dreams, in 1975, published, what with his mother's suicide in 1971.

The members of The Committee , said they already "hit" by 2017, the book is the fruit thief. "With great art, he deals with the periphery and invisible places," she said.

He has also collaborated with film-Director Wim Wenders , among others, on The Script for the Bafta-nominated 1987 film Wings of Desire.

But he is an outspoken figure, and some of his comments have proven to be offensive. He has the Serbian massacre denied in Srebrenica accused of and towards Serbia, the fate of the Jews during The Holocaust although he later apologized for the "slip of The Tongue ".

In 1999, he returned to Germany to the prestigious Buechner prize in protest against the Nato bombing of Belgrade, and was forced to reject it, a German laureate of the Heinrich-Heine-award - After an outcry in 2006.

Sir Salman Rushdie called Handke "Fool of the year" in an article for The Guardian in the year 1999 for his "series of impassioned apologias for the genocidal regime of Slobodan Milosevic ".

to collect When Handke came up, The International Ibsen Award in Norway in 2014, he was greeted with protesters shouting "fascist" and holding placards calling him a "genocide denier".

Tokarczuk 'life From Above ' Tokarczuk took part in an equality, the rewards in March in Wroclaw, Poland, at the weekend

Tokarczuk, 57, as the leading Polish writers of her generation, was "for a narrative, imagination, with an encyclopaedic passion for The Crossing of borders, as a form of life".

The author is a Polish Bestseller, whose books blend The Real with the mystical.

her debut novel was published in 1993, and her breakthrough came three years later with the jungle and Other times in a mythical village, and back of the history of Poland track from the first World War until the 1980s.

"you said a writer in the local life, but at the same time inspired by maps and speculative thinking, to look at life From Above ," the judge.

their work, "centers for migration and cultural transitions" and "is full of wit and cunning," they added.

Last year, she won The Man Booker International Prize for flights, the More Than a decade After it was originally released in Poland.

The Nobel Committee was "very impressed" with her epic historical novel, The Books of Jacob, in the 18Th Century , "presents a rich panorama of a little-known Chapter in European history".

Tokarczuk co-wrote the screenplay for The Crime -Spoor, this was the country's entry for The Best foreign language film at the 2018 Oscars.

A political activist who is not afraid of criticism of Poland's right-wing conservative government, it has the 15 female Nobel Prize winner from 116 literature prize winner.

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Source of news: bbc.com