Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.
Handke in 2006
2019 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 10 October 2019. Handke is the second Austrian Nobel laureate in Literature after Elfriede Jelinek, who won the prize in 2004.
"for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
Handke's denial of the Bosnian genocide is one of the many grounds for the heavy criticism he receives after receiving the prize.
Mats Malm, permanent secretary of Swedish Academy since 2019.
John Banville received a "prank call" hours before the Swedish Academy announced the official winner, informing him that he was among the newest Nobel laureates.
