Peter Handke

Peter Handke Nobel Prize row: Choice of 2019 Literature Laureate prompts criticism from Salman Rushdie, Albanian PM Edi Rama

Peter Handke's Nobel Prize for Literature 2019 win has been embroiled in controversy and backlash, since in the past, he had publicly suggested that Sarajevo’s Muslims were responsible for their own massacre, later blaming the Serbs. Many shared their discontent on Twitter.

As Peter Handke's Nobel Prize for Literature 2019 win triggers row, PEN America condemns Swedish Academy's decision

Even as leading literary figures such as Salman Rushdie and Hari Kunzru, among others, questioned the Academy's choice of Handke, the American chapter of PEN, the global organisation of writers, released a statement expressing their 'rejection' of Peter Handke as the 2019 Nobel Laureate.

Nobel Prize for Literature for 2018, 2019 awarded to Poland's Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke, respectively

The Nobel Prize for 2018 was awarded to Tokarczuk "for her narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life" a representative for the Academy said. The official noted that 2019 Literature Laureate Handke's "influential work with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and specificity of human experience."