Nobel Literature Prizes announced for 2018 and 2019 Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk wins the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize and Austrian Peter Handke the 2019 prize. Olga Tokarczuk, considered the most talented Polish novelist of her generation, has a string of bestsellers to her name and a style that blends the real with the mystical. Handke is a novelist, playwright and translator that the Swedish Academy praised for his "influential work". SOUNDBITE