A counter-trend “traitor”, a playwright who does not want to please the audience.
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On March 5 this year, the Nobel Prize Foundation said that the Nobel Prize for Literature, which was suspended in 2018 due to sexual assault, will be reissued. Today, Nobel has announced the winners of the literary awards for the two years of 2018 and 2019.
2018 and 2019 Literature Award Winners|Nobel Prize Website
Among them, the 2018 award was given to Polish woman writer Olga Tokarczuk because she “has an encyclopedic narrative imagination and uses cross-border as a kind of her life.” form”. The 2019 medal was won by the Austrian writer and playwright Peter Handke. The jury believes that “he explored the periphery and particularity of human experience with the ingenuity of far-reaching works and languages.”
A good tailor
Olga Tokarchuk is a well-known female writer in Poland. She has twice won the jury award for the highest honor in Polish literature, and won the reader of the Nicarin Award four times.
“Miscellaneous,” “interlaced,” and “combined,” are words that critics use to describe Tokarchuk and her work. For example, “The House of the Day, House of the Night” is an extremely rich novel composed of dozens of short close-ups and stories. The various rhetorical styles are intertwined and infiltrated, autobiographical, essay, narrative, and epic. Wait for a variety of styles to cross. This representative is more linear, multi-role, and multi-plot. As local critics say, it is “a hundred coats stitched together with various pieces of cloth.” In this sense, Tokarchuk is a “good tailor.”
Tokarchuk was born in 1962 and graduated from the Department of Psychology at the University of Warsaw. In 1987, he went to the altar with the poem “The City in the Mirror”, and then published the novel “The Travel of People in the Book”, “E.E.” “Taigu and Other Time”. The writer is good at integrating elements such as folklore, mythology and religious stories into his works to observe the historical destiny and real life of Poland.
“Realistic writing is not enough to describe the world, because people’s experience in the world must carry more, including emotions, intuition, confusion, bizarre coincidence, grotesque situations, and fantasy. Through writing, we should break through this slightly. The so-called rationalism, and in this way to strengthen it. We live in a world that is constantly surprising and unpredictable. The writing I understand is a stretching exercise that stretches our experience. Beyond them, build a broader consciousness. I like to put reality and fantasy together, but I also wrote historical novels based on the facts of the eighteenth century.” Tokarchuk once expressed his own view of literature.
Reality and fantasy and intertwined works, as well as factual-based historical novels, respectively, corresponding to Tokarchuk’s “Swire and Other Time” and “Jacob.” In 1996, Tokarchuk’s third novel, Taikoo and Other Time, was published. This Tokarchuk became a representative of the Polish literary world. In 2014, her new work, The Book of James, was published, a novel that combines the history of Polish and Jewish people in the 18th century. This book won the “Ninmark Award” of the year, but at the same time, the nationalists thought it was a novel that tarnished the image of the Jews and the Polish state, accusing Tokarchuk as a traitor and even sending her death. Threat.
A playwright who offends the audience
Peter Hendrick, was named “Pioneer.” He created a “talking drama.” The best known is his “骂 audience” created in the 1960s. There is no set of this rebellious work, only an empty stage and an auditorium with lights; there is no story, only the actors directly spray offensive words to the audience.
In the scene, the actor is no longer the subject, and the smashed audience becomes the subject. This can be said to overthrow the definition of drama and question the relationship between the audience and the actors. Handeck completely ignores the traditional concept that creators want to please the audience.
Peter Hendrick | Nobel Prize Website
He participated in the new film movement in Germany in the 1970s. He is a novelist, a playwright, a poet, a film writer, a film director and many other identities, and he is still working hard. He received the Bischner Literature Prize in 1973, the Kafka Literature Award in 2009, and the International Ibsen Award in 2014. He has also been a popular candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in recent years. “Hendrick is a living classic, he is more qualified than me to win the Nobel Prize,” said Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek in 2004.
Chinese writer. In 2016, he was awarded to Bob Dylan, who “created a new poetic expression in the great American musical tradition.” In 2017, he was awarded to Ishiguro Kazuo. “With his great emotional power, he discovered the abyss hidden under the illusion of our connection with the world.”
For more than a century, Nobel writers have experienced a great storm in 2017. At the end of 2017, Sweden’s “Daily News” first exposed 18 women accused of the sexual harassment and sexual assault of the husband of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Katarina Frostenson’s husband Jean-Claude Arnault. Misconduct occurred between 1996 and 2017. On November 19, 2018, the Swedish Academy of Literature, the Nobel Prize for Literature, said that external experts would be invited to join the existing literary awards jury to rebuild public trust after the 2018 literary awards were suspended due to sexual scandals. On March 5, 2019, the Nobel Prize Foundation stated that the Nobel Prize for Literature will be reinstated and two winners in 2018 and 2019 will be selected.