photo Peter Handke

Peter Handke

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 2019
for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience
Citizenship
Austria Austria
Languages
Slovene, French, German
date of birth
12/6/1942
place of birth
Griffen
Age
83 years
member of
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • start time: 11/1/2012
  • Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska
  • Association of Writers of Serbia
  • Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
notable work
  • The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
  • Offending the Audience
  • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
  • The Left-Handed Woman
  • The Moravian Night
  • Short Letter, Long Farewell
occupation
  • translator
  • playwright
  • film director
  • prose writer
  • short story writer
  • writer
  • screenwriter
  • poet
  • artist
  • director
  • novelist
  • librettist
  • essayist
  • draftsperson
educated at
  • University of Graz
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