The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019
Awarded on: 2019-10-10
"for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience"
Peter Handke
Born: 1942-12-06 in Griffen, Austria
Gender: male
Field: Austrian Nobel laureate novelist (born 1942)
Biography
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 century.