Peter Handke visited Slobodan Milosevic in jail and gave a eulogy at his funeral - Was the Nobel foundation right to award him the Nobel Prize in Literature
Peter Handke is the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Literature, but the decision to grant him the most prestigious literary prize has been slammed by politicians, leading authors and writers’ organisations.
The Austrian writer won praise from the awarding body for “an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience” but his past comments on the Bosnian genocide have led many to question the wisdom of the selection. Where were you in 1996? Peter Handke was doing his slumming in Serbia tour, making the pilgrimage to Radovan Karadzic, fake newsing avant la lettre, reciting the prose and poetry of genocide denial in Kosovo.
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