PETER HANDKE

STOCKHOLM — (AP) — The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Gurnah was only the sixth Nobel literature laureate born in Africa, and the prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers. The prizes to Gurnah in 2021 and U.S. poet Louise Glück in 2020 helped the literature prize move on from years of controversy and scandal. In 2018, the award was postponed after sex abuse allegations rocked the Swedish Academy, which names the Nobel literature committee, and sparked an exodus of members. ___Follow all AP stories about the Nobel Prizes at https://apnews.com/hub/nobel-prizesCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm

French author Annie Ernaux has staunchly defended a woman's right to abortion after winning this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.

This year’s Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster.

Nobel Literature FILE - A Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 file photo of a Nobel Prize medal. The Nobel Prize in Literature is due to be awarded on Thursday Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) (Jacquelyn Martin)STOCKHOLM — (AP) — The 2021 Nobel Prize for literature is being announced Thursday, an award that has in the past honored poets, novelists and even a songwriter, Bob Dylan. The prize money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895. ___Read more stories about Nobel Prizes past and present by The Associated Press at https://www.apnews.com/NobelPrizesCopyright 2021 The Associated Press.

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Serbia Handke Austrian author Peter Handke, right, receives the Order of the Karadjordje's Star from Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, May 9, 2021. Serbia has decorated Austrian Nobel literature laureate Peter Handke, who is known for his apologist views over Serb war crimes during the 1990s' wars in the Balkans. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) (Darko Vojinovic)BELGRADE, Serbia — (AP) — Serbia on Sunday honored 2019 Nobel Literature Prize winner Peter Handke, who is known for his apologist views over Serbia's nationalist policies and Serb war crimes during the 1990s wars in the Balkans. “Thank you for everything you have done for Serbia,” Vucic said. Handke also has disputed that the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in the town of Srebrenica was genocide.

Serbia has honored 2019 Nobel Literature Prize winner Peter Handke, who is known for his apologist views over Serbia’s nationalist policies and war crimes during the 1990s’ wars in the Balkans.

Bosnia Handke Austrian author Peter Handke, left, receives the Order of the Republika Srpska from President of Republika Srpska Zeljka Cvijanovic during the ceremony in Banja Luka, Bosnia, Friday, May 7, 2021. The 2019 Nobel Literature Prize laureate Peter Handke was on Friday awarded top honors from Bosnian Serbs, building on the controversy stemming from his apologist views over Serb war crimes during the 1990s' wars in the Balkans. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic) (Radivoje Pavicic)BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — (AP) — Bosnian Serbs on Friday honored the controversial 2019 Nobel Literature Prize winner Peter Handke, who is known for his apologist views over Serb war crimes during the 1990s' wars in the Balkans. “I am happy to be here,” Handke said in Banja Luka, according to Bosnian Serb TV. The country's two federations, one led by Bosnian Serbs and the other by Bosniaks and Croats, are tied together by joint Bosnian institutions.

Bosnian Serbs have honored the controversial 2019 Nobel Literature Prize winner Peter Handke, who is known for his apologist views over Serb war crimes during the 1990s’ wars in the Balkans.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to former U.S. Childhood and family life, the close relationship with parents and siblings is a [theme] that has remained central to her,” Anders Olsson, the chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, said. At least one member of the Nobel literature committee resigned over the decision to honor Handke. AdvertisementHowever, Americans have been well-represented in this year’s round of Nobel Prizes, sharing in all three science awards before Thursday’s announcement of the literature laurel. The Nobel Peace Prize winner will be unveiled Friday, and the award for economics will be announced Monday.

American poet Louise Gluck speaks with the media, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. Gluck, a professor of English at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., won the 2020 Nobel Prize for literature "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)STOCKHOLM – Louise Glück, an American poet long revered for the power, inventiveness and concision of her work and for her generosity to younger writers, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. “As one of our most celebrated American poets, we are thrilled that Louise Glück has received this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature," Michael Jacobs, chairman of the Academy of American Poets, said in a statement. In 2018, the award was postponed after sex abuse allegations rocked the Swedish Academy, which names the Nobel literature committee, and sparked a mass exodus of members.

(CNN) - The decision to award Austrian writer Peter Handke a Nobel Prize in Literature has sparked widespread outrage, with critics calling it "shameful" that the award has been given to a "genocide denier." Handke won the Nobel "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience," according to the Swedish Academy, the cultural institution responsible for awarding it. CNN has contacted the Swedish Academy for comment. The Nobel Foundation told CNN that it "never comments upon the Prize awarding institutions' independent selections of Nobel Prize laureates." "It was very courageous by the Swedish Academy, this kind of decision," he told reporters, according to Reuters.

(CNN) - The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Austrian author Peter Handke, while the 2018 award, postponed from last year, was given to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. Handke won the award "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." And Tokarczuk will take home the 2018 award "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." Two prizes were awarded this year after the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was postponed in the wake of a sexual and financial scandal that engulfed the Swedish Academy, the cultural institution responsible for awarding it. The decision did not affect the other Nobel prizes, which are awarded separately.

The rare double announcement came after no literature prize was awarded last year due to sex-abuse allegations that tarnished the Swedish Academy, which awards the literature prize. The rare double announcement came after no literature prize was awarded last year due to sex-abuse allegations that tarnished the Swedish Academy, which awards the literature prize. Handke who once called for the Nobel Prize to be abolished said he was "astonished" to receive the award. Tokarczuk is only the 15th woman to win the Nobel literature prize in more than a century. In his will, Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel designated the Swedish Academy as the institution responsible for the Nobel Prize in literature.

The rare double announcement came after no literature prize was awarded last year due to sex-abuse allegations that tarnished the Swedish Academy, which awards the literature prize. The rare double announcement came after no literature prize was awarded last year due to sex-abuse allegations that tarnished the Swedish Academy, which awards the literature prize. Handke who once called for the Nobel Prize to be abolished said he was "astonished" to receive the award. Tokarczuk is only the 15th woman to win the Nobel literature prize in more than a century. In his will, Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel designated the Swedish Academy as the institution responsible for the Nobel Prize in literature.

The rare double announcement came after no literature prize was awarded last year due to sex-abuse allegations that tarnished the Swedish Academy, which awards the literature prize. The rare double announcement came after no literature prize was awarded last year due to sex-abuse allegations that tarnished the Swedish Academy, which awards the literature prize. Handke who once called for the Nobel Prize to be abolished said he was "astonished" to receive the award. Tokarczuk is only the 15th woman to win the Nobel literature prize in more than a century. In his will, Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel designated the Swedish Academy as the institution responsible for the Nobel Prize in literature.