The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West. It will be announced on … The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. Ill. Niklas Elmehed. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature has not been awarded yet. Fifteen laureates were awarded in 2019, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. Fifteen laureates were awarded in 2019, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 was awarded to Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience. The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 112 times to 116 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2019. © Nobel Media. Last year, one of our top contenders in medicine -- checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy -- won. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 was awarded jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries." Click on the links to get more information. In a rare double ceremony following the postponement of last year’s award due to a series of scandals, the Swedish Academy has awarded the 2018 prize to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and the 2019 prize to Austrian author Peter Handke. (Inside Science) -- Every year, the Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics, and chemistry honor great advances and discoveries in science. Next week, the Swedish Academy will announce not one Nobel literature laureate but two, as the prize seeks to move on from a year of unprecedented scandal. We were not as successful in the other two categories. 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. The ceremony will be held December 10, 2019, in Stockholm. The 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prize Literature winners have been announced!