Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke win Literature Nobels Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk wins the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize, which was delayed over a sexual harassment scandal, while Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke took the 2019 award, the Swedish Academy announces. \\nTokarczuk was honoured "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life".\\nHandke won "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES from the announcement