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
A canadian new humping. margaret atwood yeah yeah i mean she was often of the fan favorite i d suggest that would obviously canadian writer huge bestseller also in the news of course because she just brought out the testaments her sequel to her famous handmaid s tale book i think she was the fan favorite. maybe she was a little bit too popular if you know the cool kids of the swedish academy want to say maybe next you know i mean do you think do you think yeah do you think they thought oh this is too popular mission and it s interesting because the nobel prize tends to give their awards to sort of more of skewer writers they ve got a couple popular ones of famously a couple years ago dylan bob dylan which was a very very controversial choice maybe it has been punished for being a bit too successful she said sometimes that she s not deliberately a bestselling author that she s actually a literary writer but happens to sell a lot of books but maybe i would like to see the academy you kno
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
Cultural transitions. before becoming a writer for car truck worked as a therapist for challenge. director of nascar hall and adapted to car trips novel drive your plow into the phones of the dead for the screen the film won a silver bear at the berlin film festival in 2017. the literature nobel prize was not awarded last year due to a. series of scandals involving this man john clode. the husband of one of the swedish academy members are know was accused of sexual assault and is currently serving a 2 year prison sentence for rape. he was also accused of misuse of academy funds and of using his insider knowledge to bet on former prize winners.
And joining me now. to talk about that in a minute let s talk about the winners for what do you think of these 2 women s yeah it s interesting i mean you mentioned they are both europeans but i think you d hardly pick 2 more different writers i mean. chuck she s fairly young for a nobel prize winner she s just $57.00 which is quite young to win this type of award and she s quite she s also quite a bit of an activist she s she s known for being quite wild are known for her black dreadlocks and being an environmentalist and and her style as well is quite wild as sort of cosmopolis politan it s it s about characters switching between languages and cultures and she s very very political i mean she s a very sharp critic of poland s right wing government and even today she was today s announcement of the nobel prize to make a political point she said that the prize shows that despite problems with democracy in poland we still have something to say and is quite