(1942-12-06) 6 December 1942 (age 81) Griffen, Gau Carinthia, German Reich (now Austria)
Occupation
Novelist
Playwright
Education
University of Graz
Notable works
Offending the Audience
Kaspar
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Repetition
Notable awards
Georg Büchner Prize (1973)
Vilenica International Literary Prize (1987)
Brothers Karic award for literature (2000)
International Ibsen Award (2014)
Nobel Prize in Literature (2019)
Spouse
Sophie Semin (since 1995)[citation needed]
Signature
Peter Handke (German pronunciation:[ˈpeːtɐˈhantkə]; born 6 December 1942) 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."[1] Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.[2][3]
In the late 1960s, he earned his reputation as a member of the avant-garde with such plays as Offending the Audience (1966) in which actors analyze the nature of theatre and alternately insult the audience and praise its "performance", and Kaspar (1967). His novels, mostly ultra objective, deadpan accounts of characters in extreme states of mind, include The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970) and The Left-Handed Woman (1976).[4] Prompted by his mother's suicide in 1971, he reflected her life in the novella A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972).
A dominant theme of his works is the deadening effects and underlying irrationality of ordinary language, everyday reality, and rational order.[4] Handke was a member of the Grazer Gruppe (an association of authors) and the Grazer Autorenversammlung, and co-founded the Verlag der Autoren publishing house in Frankfurt. He collaborated with director Wim Wenders, and wrote such screenplays as The Wrong Move and Wings of Desire.
In 1973, he won the Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize for German-language literature. In 1999, as a protest against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Handke returned the prize money to the German Academy for Language and Literature.[5] Handke has drawn significant controversy for his public support of Serbian nationalism in the wake of the Yugoslav Wars. [6]
^"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019". NobelPrize.org.
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^"Chronik 1973". buechnerpreis.de (in German). Retrieved 6 February 2022.
^Sage, Adam (29 July 2006). "Theatre boss's dismissal splits artistic community". The Times. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017.
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