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Introducing Peter Handke Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director and screen writer .He was born in 6 December 1947 in Griffen in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Handke also wrote short stories, essays, radio dramas and autobiographical works. Through his works, Handke explores everyday reality and their accompanying rational order with their constraining and underlying irrationality, confusion, and even madness. He has been conferred the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.’ He has also received many other awards including the George Buchner Prize in 1973 and the Austrian Theatre Prize for life time achievement in 2018. Introducing a few works by Peter Handke: 1) Offending the Audience :  A play. It is sometimes called an 'anti-play' because of its renouncement of theatricality. It was originally publis

Weekly Post #4

Introducing Olga Tokarczuk  On October 10, 2019, the Swedish Academy announced the winners of Nobel Prize in literature for the years 2018 and 2019. Tokarczuk, a writer and public intellectual from Poland won the 2018 award while Peter Handke, an Austrian playwright and scriptwriter has been conferred the 2019 award.  Olga Tokerczuk is a Polish writer. She was born in 1962 in Sulechow, Poland. She is the author of nine novels and several collections of short-stories and essays. In her works she often deals with the lives at the periphery of society, idea of making roots and home at a new place and sometimes her imagination even evolves toward mythological tales. She portrays a multilingual and religiously plural Poland in her novels which totally opposes the far right ideas of Poland's contemporary toxic political scenario. For this she has faced several death threats. She has been conferred the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature for ' a narrative imagination that with

Weekly Post #3

Introducing Sylvia Plath  Sylvia Plath was an American confessional poet. She was born on October 27, 1932 and she died on February 11, 1963. In her works she expressed a sense of alienation and feeling of self-destruction, closely related to her personal life. She was married to the famous English poet Ted Hughes. She suffered from bipolar disorder.  Source:  Scoopwhoop Introducing Briefly Her Major Works:  1) The Colossus and Other Poems: A famous poetry collection. It contains her famous poem 'The Quieting Muses'. The poem is based on a painting by Giorgio di Chirico, an Italian artist who founded the Scuola Metafisica Art Movement that later influenced the Surrealists. The poem is addressed to her mother and the three muses there represent the twentieth century parents.  2) The Bell Jar: A semi-autobiographical novel written under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The protagonist is Esther Greenwood, a young woman who wants to become a writer. Th