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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 9 deceMber 2019

Nobel literature winner dreams of a new narrative style

By DAVID KEYTON us,” she said.
JIM HEINTZ Tokarczuk is the 2018 lit-
Associated Press erature laureate. Her prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nobel was announced only two
Literature Prize winner Olga months ago because the
Tokarczuk says she thinks a Swedish Academy post-
new sort of fiction may be poned naming a winner
needed to counteract the last year due to internal tur-
modern era’s tendency to moil connected with a sex
isolate and divide people. abuse scandal.
In her Saturday lecture in The 2019 Nobel Literature
Stockholm ahead of receiv- winner, Peter Handke, has
ing the prize next week, the also brought controversy
Polish author complained to the body because of
of the “exhausting white widespread criticism of
noise of oceans of informa- him as an apologist for Ser-
tion” in the internet era. bian war crimes during the
‘”It has turned out that we 1990s.
are not capable of bearing One Swedish Academy
this enormity of information, member said he is boycot-
which instead of uniting, ting Nobel ceremonies this
generalizing and freeing, year in protest of Handke’s
has differentiated, divided selection and a member of
and enclosed us in individ- the literature nominating
ual little bubbles,” she said. 2019 Nobel Prize laureate in literature Olga Tokarczuk speaks at a press conference at the Swedish committee has announced
Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday Dec. 6, 2019.
Tokarczuk suggested this Associated Press his resignation.
discourages people from Handke jousted with jour-
understanding how actions person” narrator in fiction rator as miraculous and sig- recognizing the ultimate nalists who were question-
are interconnected, thus who could encompass the nificant. fact that all things that ex- ing his views at a Friday
contributing to climate cri- views of each character in This is a point of view, a ist are mutually connected news conference, saying
sis and political tensions. a novel. perspective, from which into a single whole, even if he preferred receiving
She said she dreams of “We can regard this figure everything can be seen. the connections between soiled toilet paper to an-
a new kind of “fourth- of a mysterious, tender nar- Seeing everything means them are not yet known to swering their questions. q