2018 Nobel Prize in Literature

2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
Olga Tokarczuk
"for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life."
Date
  • 10 October 2019 (2019-10-10)
    (announcement)
  • 10 December 2019
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962) "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life."[1] The prize was announced the following year by the Swedish Academy on 10 October 2019.[2] Tokarczuk is the fifth Nobel laureate in Literature from Poland writing in Polish, after the poet Wisława Szymborska in 1996, and Czesław Miłosz in 1980.

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in literature 2018 nobelprize.org
  2. ^ Price announcement nobelprize.org