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 century.
Background
- Born in
- Griffen
- Educated at
- University of Graz
- Awards
- 🏆 Georg Büchner Prize
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1942
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- spouse:
- Libgart Schwarz, Sophie Semin
- children:
- Amina Handke, Léocadie Handke
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