2019 Nobel Prize in Literature

2019 Nobel Prize in Literature
Peter Handke
"for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
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 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Peter Handke (born 1942) "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."[1] The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 10 October 2019.[2] Handke is the second Austrian Nobel laureate in Literature after Elfriede Jelinek, who won the prize in 2004.

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 nobelprize.org
  2. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 Price Announcement.