but we begin with the 2 winners of the nobel prize for literature one for 2018 and $1.00 for this year as well this is because it was awarded last year due to a scandal within the rather secretive nobel prize committee so the committee has promised to be more open in the future and also less eurocentric however both winners this year are from europe the polish off the hook for 2018 and this is one of the austrian author paid to handcuff. born in 1942 austrian writer pay to hunt has been a perennial favorite for the nobel prize the swedish academy with typical literary flora's credit him with creating an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience among his best known novels is the goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick from 1970 which was turned