The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Austrian author Peter Handke, while the 2018 award, postponed from last year, was given to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk on Thursday.The two winners were named this year because the prize was not given last year as the Swedish Academy that oversees the award had suspended it in 2018 following a sexual assault scandal."The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke," said the official twitter feed of the Nobel Prize.Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke, 76, will take home the award "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience".Handke's body of work includes, 'A Sorrow Beyond Dreams', 'Short Letter, Long Farewell', and 'The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick'.Olga Tokarczuk, 57, won the award "for a narrative imagination that ..
