The 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prize winners are Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke

• Click to share on Facebook (Opens in a new window)
• Click to share on Twitter (Opens in a new window)
• Click here to share on LinkedIn (Opens in a new window)
• Click to email a friend (Opens in a new window)

(JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP / Getty Images)

(CNN) - The 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Olga Tokarczuk and the 2019 prize, to Peter Handke, was announced this Thursday.

Two awards are given this year because the 2018 one was suspended due to a scandal at the Swedish Academy.

News in development

Nobel Prize in Literature