Austrian Writer Peter Handke Takes the Nobel Literature Prize Amid Protests

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Austrian Writer Peter Handke Takes the Nobel Literature Prize Amid Protests
By DAVID KEYTON and JIM HEINTZ / AP 8:36 PM EST

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Author Peter Handke received his Nobel Literature Prize on Tuesday amid criticism of him in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the 1990s.

Handke accepted the 9 million-kronor ($948,000) award from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm with the winners of other Nobels except for the peace prize, which was presented in Oslo.

The Austrian novelist and screenplay writer was given the award for “influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience,” according to the prize citation.

Read more at: https://time.com/5747922/peter-handke-nobel-literature-prize/