The Swedish Academy and Peter Handke: Justice for whom?
On December 10th 2019 the well-known Austrian author Peter Handke, received the Nobel Prize for Literature. A number of ambassadors from the Western Balkans boycotted the ceremony, as did Peter Englund, a historian and former secretary of the Swedish Academy. Kosovo declared Handke persona non grata. The controversy is about Handke’s position on Serbia. He is accused of supporting the regime under Slobodan Milošević or even genocide denial.
January 28, 2020 -
Joanna Hosa
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Peter Handke’s controversial writing on Serbia mixes idyllic descriptions of the landscape with an attack on newspapers, individual journalists and the international community in general. Photo: Wild+Team Agentur - UNI Salzburg (CC) commons.wikimedia.org