The Content Reader

The local library had an open invitation for a Nobel reception, to await the announcement of the new Laureates of the Academy. A lot of expert guesses before the announcement. Several important writers from all over the world was suggested. Once Mats Malm took the floor, it was announced that two European writers, one woman and one man has been awarded the prize. Polish Olga Tokarczuk won the prize for 2018, and Austrian author Peter Handke for 2019. I am not familiar with any of the two authors, but am looking forward to read something by both of them. The 2018 prize is awarded to Polish author  Olga Tokarczuk, “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.” I am looking forward reading something by her, and it seems that her 2014 novel  The Books of Jacob  is well worth to start with. She also won the Man Booker International Prize 2018,  for  Flights.  The 2019 prize is a...