Major Literary Awards 2019

• Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 was
awarded to Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."

• Sahitya Akademi Award

In 2019, Dr Shashi Tharoor received the Sahitya Academy Award for his book An Era of Darkness in a non-fiction category in English language. 

• Booker Prize

The 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 14^th October 2019. The Prize was awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. This was the first time the prize was shared since 1992, despite a rule change banning joint winners.

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

This year, Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019 for his epic nature novel The Overstory.

• Poet Laureate of United Kingdom

On 10th May 2019, Simon Robert Armitage was declared as the Poet Laureate. He has succeeded Carol Ann Duffy.