After a two-year long wait, the Nobel Committee finally decided to announce two winners (for 2018 and 2019) in Poland's Olga Tokarczuk and Austria's Peter Handke. It's a wonderful time for these two writers because a lot more people are going to be exposed to their books and ideas. But before you go searching for their titles at a bookstore near you, it's best to do some background research. So without further ado, let's look at some things you need to know about 2019 winner Peter Handke.

He dropped out of college after a publisher approved his first novel

After his first novel Die Hornissen (The Hornets) was accepted by German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag, Handke decided that he had had enough of formal education and dropped out.