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 floras 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 goalies anxiety at the penalty kick from 1970 which was turned
to a film by german Director Venders hunt go with vendors also cowrote the script to german film classic wings of desire. But hunka is a controversial choice he supported serbia
page and hung because book short let alone for a while is one of the books featured in our series 100 joan must reads writes. everybody around the world associates the peaceful revolution of 1909 that brought about the downfall of communist east germany with this is city berlin the fall of the bubble in wall but the revolution actually got underway in the east german city of like 6 with demonstrations after monday prayers in the st nicholas church that the 1st major demo was 30 years ago on october 9th and the man who behind the scenes was hugely influential in these demos not being violently crushed was not the great conductor caught months or. like 6 lights up the city celebrating the 30th anniversary of the peaceful revolution that led to the form of the berlin wall thousands turn out with candles it was here that back in 190970000 people gathered for a decisive protest that proved