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"Shame on you" is the message that Bosnian Muslim associations from the 1990's war are sending to the Swedish Academy on a giant billboard in central Sarajevo. Bosnian Muslim associations have denounced the decision of the Swedish Academy to grant the Nobel Prize to the Austrian writer Peter Handke because of his pro-Serb position on the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. IMAGES
Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk wins the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize and Austrian Peter Handke the 2019 prize. Olga Tokarczuk, considered the most talented Polish novelist of her generation, has a string of bestsellers to her name and a style that blends the real with the mystical. Handke is a novelist, playwright and translator that the Swedish Academy praised for his "influential work". SOUNDBITE
Women's rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi's Nobel peace prize win pays tribute to the courage of Iranian women in the face of reprisals and harrassment, the United Nations says. The award "really highlights the courage and determination of the women of Iran and how they are an inspiration to the world", UN human rights office spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
The Swedish Academy announces Norway's Jon Fosse as this year's winner of the Nobel literature prize "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable", says Mats Malm, the academy's permanent secretary. SOUNDBITE
Images of books by the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature, Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse. The Swedish Academy singled out the 64-year-old writer "for his innovative plays and prose, which have given voice to the unspeakable". IMAGES
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