Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.
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Peter Handke
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 c…
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Born 6 December 1942 · Q44107
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2019· 5 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2019).
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In 2019, The Intercept published a number of articles by Peter Maass criticizing Peter Handke's Nobel Prize in Literature reception.
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Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience
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The Intercept published a number of articles by Peter Maass criticizing Peter Handke's Nobel Prize in Literature reception
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Nestroy theater award/lifetime achievement (2018).
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala (2017).
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Belgrade (2015).
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded Else-Lasker-Schüler-Dramatikerpreis (2014).
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Awarded International Ibsen Award (2014).
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The Norwegian author Øyvind Berg called for the jury to resign
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2013· 1 entry
Tomislav Nikolić, as the President of Serbia, expressed gratitude saying that some people still remember those who suffered for Christianity, implying that Handke was a victim of scorn for his views, to which Handke repl
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Candide Preis (2011).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Franz Kafka Prize (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts (2008).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Heinrich Heine Prize (2006).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Siegfried Unseld Preis (2004).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded America Award in Literature (2002).
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1999· 2 entries
As a protest against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Handke returned the prize money to the German Academy for Language and Literature
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Handke was condemned by other writers: Susan Sontag proclaimed Handke to be "finished" in New York
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1996· 1 entry
Handke's travelogue Eine winterliche Reise zu den Flüssen Donau, Save, Morawa und Drina oder Gerechtigkeit für Serbien (published in English as A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia) created controversy, as Handke
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Schiller Memorial Prize (1995).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen (1988).
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Vilenica Prize (1987).
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Awarded Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (1987).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Franz Nabl Prize (1985).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Franz-Kafka-Preis (1979).
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Georges-Sadoul (1978).
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And was nominated for the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978 and won the Gold Award for German Arthouse Cinema in 1980
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1977· 1 entry
Reviewing A Moment of True Feeling, Stanley Kauffmann wrote that Handke "is the most important new writer on the international scene since Samuel Beckett
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1973· 3 entries
Awarded Georg Büchner Prize (1973).
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Awarded Schiller Prize of the City of Mannheim (1973).
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Won the Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize for German-language literature
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Literaturpreis des Landes Steiermark (1972).
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1971· 2 entries
Reflected her life in the novella A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972)
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Reflected in his novel Wunschloses Unglück (A Sorrow Beyond Dreams)
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1969· 1 entry
With a new commercial concept, as it belonged to the authors
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Gerhart Hauptmann prize (1967).
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Kaspar, play, English version also as Kaspar and Other Plays
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1966· 1 entry
And made him well known, was the first of several experimental plays without a conventional plot
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1965· 1 entry
After the German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag accepted his novel Die Hornissen (The Hornets) for publication
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1959· 1 entry
Moved to Klagenfurt, where he went to high school, and commenced law studies at the University of Graz in 1961
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1954· 1 entry
Handke was sent to the Catholic Marianum boys' boarding school at Tanzenberg Castle in Sankt Veit an der Glan
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1945· 1 entry
ISBN 978-3-518-42131-4; first performance: Salzburg Festival 2011
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-12-06.
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