Austria's Peter Handke wins the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award goes to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the Swedish Academy says.

Scientists John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries, an important technology in enabling the world to move away from fossil fuels.

Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz win the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for shedding light on the evolution of the universe and discovering planets orbiting distant suns.

Two scientists from the United States and one from Britain win the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize for finding how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, paving the way for new strategies to fight diseases such as anaemia and cancer.