The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded twice this Thursday, October 10, the 2018 edition having been postponed because of a scandal of sexual harassment. The Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk receives the 2018 prize, and the Austrian Peter Handke the 2019 prize.
Last year a scandal of sexual assault revealed at the top of the #MeToo movement had forced the Swedish Academy to postpone the announcement of the Nobel Prize for literature. This Thursday, the names of two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, one for 2018 and the other for 2019.
The Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2018 has been awarded to the Polish Olga ToKarczuk, and the one of 2019 to the Austrian Peter Handke.
The academy was to make its defiants forget Bob Dylan's coronation in 2016 and Kazuo Ishiguro's redemption - for some too consensual - in 2017.
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