Olga Tokarczuk, whose novel 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' was the basis for Agnieszka Holland's Berlin festival Silver Bear-winning 'Spoor,' won for 2018 when no honor was awarded amid a scandal.
, has won this year's Nobel Prize for literature, organizers of the award said Thursday.
The literature honor is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in 1895. The others are prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine and the Nobel Peace Prize. Since 1901, the literature prize has been awarded to an author from any country who has, according to Nobel's will, written "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction."
"We find it necessary to commit time to recovering public confidence in the Academy before the next laureate can be announced," the Academy said last year.
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