Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austria’s Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the BBC reports.
Two winners were named – one for 2019 and one for 2018 – because the prize was not awarded last year.
The Swedish Academy, which oversees the prestigious award, suspended it in 2018 after a sexual assault scandal.
Tokarczuk, who also won the Man Booker International Prize last year, was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize, with this year’s Nobel going to Handke.
The 76-year-old Austrian playwright, novelist and poet was recognized for “an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”, the academy said in a statement.
