The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human exper
"for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience".
Mats Malm, permanent secretary of Swedish Academy since 2019.
John Banville received a "prank call" hours before the Swedish Academy announced the official winner, informing him that he was among the newest Nobel laureates.
Per Wästberg 2010c
John Banville
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William John Banville is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, wr
2019 Nobel Prize in Literature
…wide one! Selma Lagerlöf's wild geese forever... Strawberry Fields for ever. Wild Strawberries for ever." A man impersonating Malm rang the novelist John Banville on the day that the Swedish Academy intended to announce the recipients of the 2019 and 2018 Nobel Prizes in Literature. The man purporting to be Malm…
Banville in 2019
Banville in Spain in 2017