Interview, December 2019 https://youtu.be/gK61qYq7ygc Interview with the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Literature Peter Handke on 9 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Peter Handke answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): How does your writing process begin? What do you need in order to be creative? How…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4osurAgmjQ Announcement of the Nobel Prizes in Literature for 2018 and 2019, presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 10 October 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4osurAgmjQ Announcement of the Nobel Prizes in Literature for 2018 and 2019, presented by Mats Malm,  Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 10 October 2019.

Interview, December 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-WKofYuJGM Interview with Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Olga Tokarczuk answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? – Did you enjoy school? – What did you…

Swedish Biobibliografi Peter Handke är född 1942 i byn Griffen i regionen Kärnten, Österrike. Detta var även födelseort för hans mor Maria, som tillhörde den slovenska minoriteten. Fadern var en tysk soldat som han inte skulle komma att träffa förrän i vuxen ålder. Han växte istället upp med sin mor och hennes nya man, Bruno…

English Biobibliography Peter Handke was born 1942 in a village named Griffen, located in the Kärnten region in southern Austria. This was also the birthplace of his mother Maria, who belonged to the Slovenian minority. His father was a German soldier he would not meet before reaching adulthood himself. Instead, he and his siblings grew…

English Biobibliography Olga Tokarczuk was born 1962 in Sulechów in Poland, and lives in Wrocław. Her parents were teachers and her father also functioned as school librarian. In the library she read pretty much everything she could get hold of and it was here that she developed her literary appetite. After studies in psychology at…

Swedish Biobibliografi Olga Tokarczuk är född 1962 i Sulechów i Polen, och är idag bosatt i Wrocław. Hennes föräldrar var lärare och fadern var även skolans bibliotekarie. I biblioteket läste hon allt hon kom över och utvecklade sin litterära aptit. Hösten 1980 skrev hon in sig vid universitetet i Warszawa, där hon studerade psykologi med…

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