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{{short description|Austrian Nobel laureate novelist (born 1942)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name             = Peter Handke
| image            = Peter-handke.jpg
| caption          = Handke in 2006
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1942|12|6|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Griffen, Austria|Griffen]], [[Reichsgau Carinthia]], [[Nazi Germany|German Reich]] <small>(now Austria)</small>
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| education        = [[University of Graz]]
| occupation       = {{plainlist|
* Novelist
* Playwright
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| notableworks     = {{plainlist|
* ''[[Offending the Audience]]''
* ''[[Kaspar (play)|Kaspar]]''
* ''[[A Sorrow Beyond Dreams]]''
* ''[[Repetition (Handke novel)|Repetition]]''
}}
| awards           = {{plainlist|
* [[Georg Büchner Prize]] (1973)
* [[Vilenica International Literary Prize]] (1987)
* [[International Ibsen Award]] (2014)
* [[2019 Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize in Literature]] (2019)
}}
| signature        = Signature of Peter Handke.svg
| spouse           = Sophie Semin  (since 1995){{cn|date=March 2023}}
}}
'''Peter Handke''' ({{IPA|de|ˈpeːtɐ ˈhantkə|lang}}; born 6 December 1942) is an [[Austrians|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."<ref name=Nobel>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2019/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref> Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.<ref name="Britannica" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2019/handke/facts/|title=Peter Handke Facts|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref>

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 (play)|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 (novel)|The Left-Handed Woman]]'' (1976).<ref name="Britannica summary">{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/summary/Peter-Handke|title=Peter Handke summary|website=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|access-date=5 February 2022}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Britannica summary"/> 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 [[Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung|German Academy for Language and Literature]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buechnerpreis.de/buechner/chronik/1973|title=Chronik 1973|website=buechnerpreis.de|access-date=6 February 2022|language=de}}</ref> Handke has drawn significant controversy for his public support of [[Serbian nationalism]] in the wake of the [[Yugoslav Wars]].<ref name="Sage-thetimes-2006-Theatre-dismissal">{{cite web |title=Theatre boss's dismissal splits artistic community |url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article2601451.ece |last=Sage |first=Adam |website=[[The Times]] |date=29 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216130733/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article2601451.ece |archive-date=16 February 2017}}</ref>

== Life ==
=== Early life and family ===
Handke was born in [[Griffen, Austria|Griffen]], then in the [[Nazi Germany|German Reich]]'s [[Reichsgau Carinthia]].<ref name="Britannica" /> His father, Erich Schönemann, was a bank clerk and German soldier whom Handke did not meet until adulthood. His mother Maria, a [[Carinthian Slovenes|Carinthian Slovene]], married Bruno Handke, a tram conductor and [[Wehrmacht]] soldier from Berlin, before Peter was born.<ref name="Munzinger" /> The family lived in the Soviet-occupied [[Pankow (locality)|Pankow]] district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948, where Maria Handke had two more children: Peter's half-sister and half-brother. Then the family moved to his mother's home town of Griffen. Peter experienced his stepfather as more and more violent due to [[alcoholism]].<ref name="Munzinger" /><!-- and the limited cultural life of the small town contributed to Handke's antipathy to habit and restrictiveness. -- look for ref-->

In 1954, Handke was sent to the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] ''Marianum'' boys' [[boarding school]] at [[Tanzenberg Castle]] in [[Sankt Veit an der Glan]]. There, he published his first writing in the school newspaper, ''Fackel''.<ref name="Munzinger" /> In 1959, he moved to [[Klagenfurt]], where he went to high school, and commenced law studies at the [[University of Graz]] in 1961.<ref name="Britannica" />

Handke's mother took her own life in 1971, reflected in his novel ''[[A Sorrow Beyond Dreams|Wunschloses Unglück]]'' (''A Sorrow Beyond Dreams'').<ref name="Britannica" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Curwen |first1=Thomas |title=Choosing against life |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-05-bk-curwen5-story.html |access-date=11 October 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=5 January 2003}}</ref>

After leaving Graz, Handke lived in [[Düsseldorf]], Berlin, [[Kronberg im Taunus|Kronberg]], Paris, the U.S. (1978–1979) and [[Salzburg]] (1979–1988).<ref name="Wenders" /> Since 1990, he has resided in [[Chaville]] near Paris.<ref>[https://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/literatur/messie-und-messias-78494 Messie und Messias / Wie wohnt eigentlich der Schriftsteller Peter Handke? Ein Hausbesuch.] [[Süddeutsche Zeitung]] 8 October 2011</ref> He is the subject of the documentary film ''[[Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late]]'' (2016), directed by [[Corinna Belz]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/film/peter-handke-bin-im-wald-kann-sein-dass-ich-mich-verspaete_100a01ffe8a44abebd904afe10b2462e|title=Peter Handke – Bin im Wald. Kann sein, dass ich mich verspäte...|language=de|work=[[Filmportal.de]]|access-date=14 May 2017}}</ref><!--In 2006, Handke was nominated for the [[Heinrich Heine Prize]], but the prize money of €50,000 had to be approved by the city council of Düsseldorf. Members of the council's major parties stated they would vote against awarding the prize to Handke, resulting in the prize being withdrawn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2036907,00.html |title=German Politicians to Block Prize for Milosevic Sympathizer |date=31 May 2006 |publisher=Deutsche Welle |access-date=16 September 2010}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.faz.net/1.327741|title=Eklat in Düsseldorf: Kein Heine-Preis für Handke – Politiker verweigern Zustimmung|via=www.faz.net}} too much --> Since 2012, Handke has been a member of the [[Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]].<ref name="AlJazeeraBK">{{cite web|title=Outrage in Bosnia, Kosovo over Peter Handke's Nobel prize win|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/outrage-bosnia-kosovo-peter-handke-nobel-prize-win-191010183645296.html|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=11 October 2019|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref> He is a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church.<ref name="Traynor">Ian Traynor:
[https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/apr/21/features11.g28 Stand up if you support the Serbs / Austrian writer Peter Handke does, and his pro-Milosevic stance has enraged fellow artists.] ''[[The Guardian]]'', 21 April 1999</ref><ref>James Smyth: [https://jsmyth.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/handke/ Handke in Another Tempo] wordpress.com</ref>

As of early November 2019, there was an official investigation by the relevant authorities into whether Handke may have automatically lost his [[Austrian citizenship]] upon obtaining a Yugoslav passport and nationality in the late 1990s.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://apnews.com/c5501b12c92d47b9945957141d14fbdc  |title=Nobel Prize Winner Handke Admits Having Yugoslav Passport |date=8 November 2019 |work=The Associated Press |agency=AP |access-date=25 November 2019}}</ref>

=== Career ===
While studying, Handke established himself as a writer, linking up with the ''[[Grazer Gruppe]]'' (the [[Graz]] Authors' Assembly), an association of young writers.<ref name="Wenders" /> The group published a magazine on literature, ''{{ill|manuskripte|de}}'', which published Handke's early works.<ref name="Britannica" /> Group members included [[Wolfgang Bauer (writer)|Wolfgang Bauer]] and [[Barbara Frischmuth]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wakounig |first1=Marija |title=East Central Europe at a Glance: People – Cultures – Developments |date=2018 |publisher=[[LIT Verlag]] |location=Munster, Germany |isbn=978-3-643-91046-2 |page=302 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQKDDwAAQBAJ |access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>

Handke abandoned his studies in 1965,<ref name="Britannica" /> after the German publishing house [[Suhrkamp Verlag]] accepted his novel ''{{ill|Die Hornissen|de}} (The Hornets)'' for publication.<ref name="Suhrkamp" /> He gained international attention after an appearance at a meeting of [[avant-garde]] artists belonging to the [[Gruppe 47]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[New Jersey]], in 1966.<ref name="Hutchinson" /> The same year, his play ''[[Offending the Audience|Publikumsbeschimpfung]]'' (''Offending the Audience'') premiered at the [[Theater am Turm]] in Frankfurt, directed by [[Claus Peymann]].<ref name="Suhrkamp" /><ref name="Hutchinson" /> Handke became one of the co-founders of the publishing house {{ill|Verlag der Autoren|de}} in 1969 with a new commercial concept, as it belonged to the authors.<ref>Martin Lüdke: [https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/50-jahre-verlag-der-autoren-mit-enthusiasmus-gegruendet.932.de.html?dram:article_id=443223 50 Jahre "Verlag der Autoren" / Mit Enthusiasmus gegründet] Deutschlandfunk, 11 March 2019</ref> He co-founded the [[Grazer Autorenversammlung]] in 1973<ref>[https://oe1.orf.at/artikel/343066/40-Jahre-Grazer-Autorenversammlung 40 Jahre Grazer Autorenversammlung] ORF 15 June 2013</ref> and was a member until 1977.<ref name="Wenders" />

Handke's first play, ''[[Offending the Audience|Publikumsbeschimpfung]]'' (''Offending the Audience''), which premiered in Frankfurt in 1966 and made him well known,<ref name="Hutchinson" /> was the first of several experimental plays without a conventional plot.<ref name="Britannica" /> In his second play, ''[[Kaspar (play)|Kaspar]]'', he treated the story of [[Kaspar Hauser]] as "an allegory of conformist social pressures".<ref name="Hutchinson" />

[[File:Peter Handke.jpg|thumb|upright|Handke in 1983]]
Handke collaborated with director [[Wim Wenders]] on [[The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty|a film version]] of ''[[The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick|Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter]]'', wrote the script for ''[[The Wrong Move|Falsche Bewegung]]'' (''The Wrong Move'') and co-wrote the screenplay for ''[[Wings of Desire|Der Himmel über Berlin]]'' (''Wings of Desire'') including the poem at its opening and ''[[The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez|Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez]]'' (''The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez''). He also directed films, including adaptations from his novels ''[[The Left-Handed Woman]]'' after ''Die linkshändige Frau'', and ''[[The Absence (1992 film)|The Absence]]'' after ''Die Abwesenheit''.<ref name="Britannica" /><ref name="Wenders" /> ''The Left-Handed Woman'', was released in 1978 and was nominated for the [[Palme d'Or|Golden Palm Award]] at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 1978 and won the Gold Award for German Arthouse Cinema in 1980. ''[[Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide]]'s'' description of the film is that a woman demands that her husband leave and he complies. "Time passes... and the audience falls asleep." Handke also won the 1975 German Film Award in Gold for his screenplay for ''[[The Wrong Move|Falsche Bewegung]]'' (''The Wrong Move''). Since 1975, Handke has been a jury member of the European literary award [[Petrarca-Preis]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Petrarca Preis |url=http://www.petrarca-preis.de/ |website=www.petrarca-preis.de |access-date=11 October 2019 |language=de}}</ref>

In 2019, Handke was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."<ref name=Nobel/>

==Literary reception==
In 1977, reviewing ''[[A Moment of True Feeling]]'', [[Stanley Kauffmann]] wrote that Handke "is the most important new writer on the international scene since [[Samuel Beckett]]."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kauffmann|first=Stanley|author-link=Stanley Kauffmann|date=25 June 1977|title=The Novel as Poem|work=[[Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)|Saturday Review]]|page=23}}</ref> [[John Updike]] reviewed the same novel in [[The New Yorker]] and was equally impressed, noting that "there is no denying his [Handke's] willful intensity and knifelike clarity of evocation. He writes from an area beyond psychology, where feelings acquire the adamancy of randomly encountered, geologically analyzed pebbles."<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Updike|first=John|date=26 September 1977|title=Discontent in Deutsch|magazine=The New Yorker|url=https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1977-09-26/flipbook/136/|access-date=5 May 2021}}</ref> The ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'' described him as "the darling of the [[West Germany|West German]] critics."<ref name=NYT>{{Cite web|last1=Marshall|first1=Alex|last2=Schuetze|first2=Christopher|date=10 December 2019|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/books/peter-handke-nobel-prize.html|title=Genius, Genocide Denier or Both?|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref> [[Hugo Hamilton (writer)|Hugo Hamilton]] stated that, since his debut, Handke "has tested, inspired and shocked audiences."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Hugo|author-link=Hugo Hamilton (writer)|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/peter-handke-moravian-night/|title=Peter Handke's gentle epic|website=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref> [[Joshua Cohen (writer)|Joshua Cohen]] noted that Handke "commands one of the great German-language [[Prose poetry|prose]] styles of the [[post-war]] period, a riverine rhetoric deep and swift and contrary of current," while [[Gabriel Josipovici]] described him, "despite reservations about some of his recent work," as one of the most significant [[German literature|German-language writers]] of the post-war era.<ref name=Cohen>{{Cite web|last=Cohen|first=Joshua|author-link=Joshua Cohen (writer)|date=30 December 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/books/review/peter-handke-moravian-night.html|title=Peter Handke's Time-Traveling Tale of a Europe in Flux|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Josipovici|first=Gabriel|author-link=Gabriel Josipovici|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/peter-handke-moravian-night/|title=Peter Handke's gentle epic|website=[[The Times Literary Supplement]]|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref> [[W. G. Sebald]] was inspired by Handke's intricate prose. In an essay on ''Repetition'', he wrote about "a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression" the book made on him. "I don’t know," he lauded, "if the forced relation between hard drudgery and airy magic, particularly significant for the literary art, has ever been more beautifully documented than in the pages of ''Repetition.''"<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sebald|first=W. G.|title=Across the Border: Peter Handke's Repetition|publisher=The Last Books|year=2013|url=https://thelastbooks.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Sebald_Across_the_Border.pdf|pages=2, 8}}</ref> [[Karl Ove Knausgård]] described ''A Sorrow Beyond Dreams'' as one of the "most important books written in German in our time."<ref name=Rashid>{{Cite web|last=Rashid |first=Tanjil |date=6 December 2016 |url=https://www.ft.com/content/241921d6-1515-11ea-b869-0971bffac109 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/241921d6-1515-11ea-b869-0971bffac109 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|title=A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke — memoir, suffering and politics|work=[[Financial Times]]|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref> The book and its author were also praised in Knausgård's ''[[My Struggle (Knausgård novels)|My Struggle]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Knausgård|first=Karl Ove|title=Min kamp. Sjette bok|publisher=Forlaget Oktober|year=2011|isbn=9788249515127|location=Oslo|pages=225}}</ref>

==Controversies==

In 1996, Handke's [[Travel literature|travelogue]] ''Eine winterliche Reise zu den Flüssen Donau, Save, Morawa und Drina oder Gerechtigkeit für Serbien'' (published in English as ''A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia'') created controversy, as Handke portrayed [[Serbia]] as being among the victims of the [[Yugoslav Wars]]. In the same essay, Handke also criticised Western media for misrepresenting the causes and consequences of the war.<ref name="Sage-thetimes-2006-Theatre-dismissal"/><!--Former Yugoslavian president [[Slobodan Milošević]] asked that Handke be summoned as a witness for his defence before the [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]], but the writer declined. He did, however, visit the tribunal as a spectator, and later published his observations in ''Die Tablas von Daimiel'' (''The Tablas of Daimiel''). In 1999, [[Salman Rushdie]] wrote that Handke "has astonished even his most fervent admirers by his current series of impassioned apologias for the [[genocidal]] regime of Slobodan Milosevic." Rushdie commented that Handke received the Order of the Serbian Knight from Milošević for his propaganda services during a visit to Belgrade, and that his "previous idiocies include the suggestion that Sarajevo's Muslims regularly massacred themselves and then blamed the Serbs, and his denial of the genocide carried out by Serbs at Srebrenica."<ref name="rushdie">[[Salman Rushdie]], "May 1999," in ''Step Across This Line'', [[Random House]], 2008</ref> In the mid 2000s, Handke's public support of [[Slobodan Milošević]], the former president of Yugoslavia who was indicted for [[war crime]]s by a UN tribunal for his role in the [[Yugoslav Wars]], was considered controversial in the West, including Handke's delivery of a brief speech (partially in [[Serbian language|Serbian]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://handkeonline.onb.ac.at/node/1877|title=Milošević: Ein Begräbnis (2006) &#124; Handke online|website=handkeonline.onb.ac.at}}</ref> at Milošević's funeral on 18 March 2006.<ref name="Britannica" /><ref>[[Joshua Cohen (writer)|Cohen, Joshua]] (30 December 2016)."[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/books/review/peter-handke-moravian-night.html Peter Handke’s Time-Traveling Tale of a Europe in Flux]" (review of ''The Moravian Night''). ''New York Times''. Retrieved 12 October 2019.</ref>--> <!--In a letter to the French ''[[Le Nouvel Observateur|Nouvel Observateur]]'', he offered a translation of his speech: "The world, the so-called world, knows everything about Yugoslavia, Serbia. The world, the so-called world, knows everything about Slobodan Milošević. The so-called world knows the truth. This is why the so-called world is absent today, and not only today, and not only here. I don't know the truth. But I look. I listen. I feel. I remember. This is why I am here today, close to Yugoslavia, close to Serbia, close to Slobodan Milošević".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://archquo.nouvelobs.com/cgi/articles?ad=culture/20060503.OBS6399.html |title=Sur l’"affaire Handke" |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070526030403/http://archquo.nouvelobs.com/cgi/articles?ad=culture%2F20060503.OBS6399.html |archive-date=26 May 2007 }}</ref> Handke converted to the Serbian Orthodox Church, renouncing Roman Catholicism. Handke's position regarding the war in Yugoslavia has been challenged by the Slovenian writer and essayist [[Drago Jančar]], and the two have engaged in a long polemic. --to return when sourced -->

Sebastian Hammelehle wrote that Handke's view of the [[Yugoslav Wars]], which has provoked numerous controversies, was probably romanticized, but that it represented the view of a writer, not a [[War correspondent|war reporter]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hammelehle|first=Sebastian|date=10 October 2019|url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/peter-handke-die-besten-buecher-des-nobelpreistraegers-a-1290940.html|title=Die besten Romane und Erzählungen des Nobelpreisträgers|work=[[Der Spiegel]]|access-date=11 September 2020|language=de}}</ref> The American translator Scott Abbott, who travelled with Handke through [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] after which numerous essays were published, stated that Handke considered Yugoslavia as the "incredible, rich [[Multiculturalism|multicultural]] state that lacked the kind of nationalisms that he saw in Germany and Austria".<ref name=NYT /> Abbott added that Handke viewed the [[Breakup of Yugoslavia|disintegration]] of country as the disappearance of [[utopia]].<ref name=NYT /> Reviewing ''[[The Moravian Night]]'', Joshua Cohen stated that Handke's Yugoslavia was not a country, but a symbol of himself, a symbol of literature or the "European Novel".<ref name=Cohen /> [[Volker Hage]] wrote that ''The Moravian Night'' is "extremely cosmopolitan" and connected to the present, while also that the book represents the autobiographical summary of Handke's life as a writer.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hage |first=Volker |author-link=Volker Hage|date=7 January 2008|url=https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-55294689.html |title=Der übermütige Unglücksritter|work=[[Der Spiegel]]|access-date=11 September 2020|language=de}}</ref> Tanjil Rashid noted that "Handke’s novels, plays and memoirs demonstrate the evil of banality".<ref name=Rashid />

After his play ''Voyage by Dugout'' was staged in 1999, Handke was condemned by other writers: [[Susan Sontag]] proclaimed Handke to be "finished" in New York.<ref name="Zakaria-CNN-Handke-Tokarczuk">{{cite web |last1=Zakaria |first1=Rafia |title=Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk: Nobel prize winners epitomize our darkest divides |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/10/opinions/nobel-prize-in-literature-outrage-zakaria/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=5 January 2020 |date=10 December 2019}}</ref> [[Salman Rushdie]] declared him as a candidate for "International Moron of the Year" due to his "idiocies",<ref name="BBC-'shameful' Nobel-2019">{{cite web |title=Critics condemn 'shameful' Nobel for writer Handke |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50008701 |website=BBC News |access-date=19 May 2020 |language=en |date=11 October 2019}}</ref><ref name="slobodnadalmacija-2019-Žižek-Rushdie-PEN">{{cite web |title=Slavoj Žižek, Salman Rushdie, američki i britanski P.E.N. osudili izbor Petera Handkea, austrijski predsjednik Alexander Van der Bellen smatra da 'imamo još puno toga naučiti od Handkea' |url=https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/kultura/slavoj-zizek-nbsp-salman-rushdie-americki-i-britanski-p-e-n-osudili-izbor-petera-handkea-austrijski-predsjednik-strong-strong-alexander-van-der-bellen-smatra-da-39-imamo-jos-puno-toga-nauciti-od-handkea-39-627595 |website=slobodnadalmacija.hr |publisher=Slobodna Dalmacija |access-date=19 May 2020 |language=hr-hr |date=11 October 2019}}</ref><ref name="Rushdie-Globe&Mail-Balkan Witness">{{cite web |author1=Salman Rushdie |title=For services rendered – to the cause of folly |url=http://balkanwitness.glypx.com/rushdie.htm |website=Balkan Witness |publisher=from The Toronto Globe and Mail |access-date=17 May 2020 |language=en |date=7 May 1999|quote=In the battle for the hotly contested title of International Moron of the Year, two heavyweight contenders stand out. One is the Austrian writer Peter Handke, who has astonished even his work’s most fervent admirers by a series of impassioned apologias for the genocidal regime of Slobodan Milosevic, and who, during a recent visit to Belgrade, received the Order of The Serbian Knight for his propaganda services. Mr. Handke’s previous idiocies include the suggestion that Sarajevo’s Muslims regularly massacred themselves and then blamed the Serbs, and his denial of the genocide carried out by Serbs at Srebrenica. Now he likens the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s aerial bombardment to the alien invasion in the movie Mars Attacks! And then, foolishly mixing his metaphors, he compares the Serbs’ sufferings to the Holocaust.}}</ref> while [[Alain Finkielkraut]] said that he was an "ideological monster",<ref name="Staff-Guardian-Stand-up-if-support-Serb">{{cite web |last=Traynor |first=Ian |title=Stand up if you support the Serbs |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/apr/21/features11.g28 |work=The Guardian |access-date=18 November 2019 |date=21 April 1999 |quote=This writer, the Austrian, has his very personal style. The very worst crimes get mentioned rather sweetly. And so the reader completely forgets that we're dealing with crimes. The Austrian writer who visited my country found only very proud people there. They proudly put up with everything that happened to them, so much so that in their pride they didn't bother to ask why all this was happening to them.}}</ref> and [[Slavoj Žižek]] stated that his "glorification of the Serbs is cynicism".<ref name="Staff-Guardian-Stand-up-if-support-Serb"/> When Handke was awarded the [[International Ibsen Award]] in 2014, the Norwegian author [[Øyvind Berg (lyric poet)|Øyvind Berg]] called for the jury to resign.<ref name="kk">[http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20140909/ARTICLE/140909962 Krever at juryen går av], ''Klassekampen''</ref>

However, disputing such interpretations of his work as listed above as misinterpreted by the English press, Handke has described the Srebrenica massacre as an "infernal vengeance, eternal shame for the Bosnian Serbs responsible."<ref name="Parlons donc de la Yougoslavie" >{{Cite web|url=https://www.liberation.fr/tribune/2006/05/10/parlons-donc-de-la-yougoslavie_38687|title=Parlons donc de la Yougoslavie|work=[[Libération]]|access-date=4 February 2022|language=fr}}</ref> This concern about the imprecision and political nature of language, carries through Handke's view. In a 2006 interview, Handke commented on concerns about the stereotyped language of the media that "knew everything", endlessly recycling words like "the butcher of Belgrade".<ref>"Le discours intégral de l'écrivain autrichien sur la tombe de Milosevic," Libération, 4 May 2006.</ref>

Handke’s literary fame was overshadowed in 2006 by his politics. The writer’s public support of [[Slobodan Milošević]], the former president of Yugoslavia who died that year while on trial for genocide and war crimes, caused controversy after Handke spoke at his funeral.<ref name="Britannica" /> Because of this the administrator of the theatre [[Comédie-Française]], [[Marcel Bozonnet]], removed Handke's play "Voyage au pays sonore ou L'art de la question" from the forthcoming 2007 schedule.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/umstrittenes-handke-stueck-kuenstler-protest-fuer-den-autor-a-414322.html|title=Künstler-Protest für den Autor|work=[[Der Spiegel]]|date=3 May 2006 |access-date=4 February 2022|language=de}}</ref> This event once again drew both supportive and critical voices. [[Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres]], the French minister of culture, implicitly criticized Bozonnet's action in a letter addressed to him, and by deciding to invite Handke to the ministry. A petition against the censorship of his work was signed by [[Emir Kusturica]], [[Patrick Modiano]] (winner of the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in 2014), [[Paul Nizon]], [[Bulle Ogier]], [[Luc Bondy]] and Handke’s compatriot [[Elfriede Jelinek]] (winner of the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in 2004).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/2006/05/03/jelinek-soutient-peter-handke_38042|title=Jelinek soutient Peter Handke|work=[[Libération]]|access-date=4 February 2022|language=fr}}</ref> 
Handke was subsequently selected to receive that year’s [[Heinrich Heine Prize]], though he refused it before it was to be revoked from him.<ref name="Britannica" />

In 2013, [[Tomislav Nikolić]], as the President of Serbia, expressed gratitude saying that some people still remember those who suffered for Christianity, implying that Handke was a victim of scorn for his views, to which Handke replied with an explanation, "I was not anyone's victim, the Serbian people is victim." This was said during the ceremony at which Handke received the ''Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Serbia''.<ref name="rts.rs-2013-Nikolic-medal-Handke">{{cite web |title=Nikolić odlikovao Petera Handkea |url=https://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/125/drustvo/1301000/nikolic-odlikovao-petera-handkea.html |website=www.rts.rs |access-date=20 May 2020 |language=sr |date=8 April 2013}}</ref>

In 2019, [[The Intercept]] published a number of articles by [[Peter Maass]] criticizing Peter Handke's [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] reception. In another article by Intercept, Maass went to great lengths accusing Handke of being an "exponent of white nationalism". Subsequently in an interview conducted by Maass in December 2019, asking Handke whether the 1995 [[Srebrenica massacre]] had happened, Handke responded: “I prefer waste paper, an anonymous letter with waste paper inside, to your empty and ignorant questions.” Maass also claims that two Nobel prize jurors were adhering to "conspiracy theories" with regard to American involvement in the Yugoslav conflicts, and that the jurors were "misinformed" about Handke's literary achievements. Peter Handke received countless mails that included threats, or unsanitary content. Germany's [[Eugen Ruge]] also protested against the scale of the criticism. In November, around 120 authors, literary scholars, translators and artists expressed their unease in an open letter. They felt that the criticism against Handke was no longer rational.<ref>[https://theintercept.com/2019/10/10/congratulations-nobel-committee-you-just-gave-the-literature-prize-to-a-genocide-apologist/ "Congratulations, Nobel Committee, You Just Gave the Literature Prize to a Genocide Apologist"]. [[TheIntercept]]. Retrieved 2 May 2021.</ref><ref>Sheeehan D. (December 6, 2019) [https://lithub.com/i-prefer-toilet-paper-to-your-empty-and-ignorant-questions-the-peter-handke-controversy-rolls-on/ “I prefer toilet paper to your empty and ignorant questions.” The Peter Handke drama rolls on.] ''lithub.com.'' Retrieved 2 May 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.dw.com/en/nobel-laureate-peter-handkes-critics-and-supporters/a-51543860 "Nobel laureate Peter Handke's critics and supporters"]. Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 3 May 2021.</ref>

In February 2020, Handke was decorated with the [[Order of Karađorđe's Star]] for "special merits in representing Serbia and its citizens" as he "wholeheartedly defended the Serbian truth". The current President of Serbia [[Aleksandar Vučić]] presented recipients on the occasion of the Serbian Statehood Day.<ref name="aljazeera-2020-Vučić-Handke-Orden">{{cite web |title=Vučić dodijelio Handkeu Orden Karađorđeve zvijezde |url=http://balkans.aljazeera.net/vijesti/vucic-dodijelio-handkeu-orden-karadordeve-zvijezde |website=Al Jazeera Balkans |access-date=20 May 2020 |language=sh |date=15 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="slobodnaevropa-2020-Vučić-odlikovao-Handkea">{{cite news |title=Vučić odlikovao Zemana i Handkea |url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/30436009.html |website=Radio Slobodna Evropa |access-date=20 May 2020 |language=sh |date=15 April 2020}}</ref>

=== Reactions to the Nobel Prize ===
{{main|2019 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
{{see also|Nobel Prize controversies}}

== Awards ==
* 1973: [[Georg Büchner Prize]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Awards – Georg-Büchner-Preis – Peter Handke |url=https://www.deutscheakademie.de/en/awards/georg-buechner-preis/peter-handke |website=www.deutscheakademie.de |access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>
* 1987: [[Vilenica International Literary Festival|Vilenica International Literary Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mladina.si/193490/kaj-imata-letosnja-nobelova-nagrajenca-za-knjizevnost-s-slovenijo/|title=Kaj imata letošnja Nobelova nagrajenca za književnost s Slovenijo?|website=Mladina.si}}</ref>
* 2000: {{Ill|Brothers Karić Award|sr|Награда Браћа Карић}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Award Laureates in 2000. |url=https://www.karicawards.com/Laureates-in-the-first-ten-years/790/The-Karic-Brothers-Award-Laureates-in-2000.shtml |website=www.karicawards.com |access-date=10 October 2019 |archive-date=11 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011000733/https://www.karicawards.com/Laureates-in-the-first-ten-years/790/The-Karic-Brothers-Award-Laureates-in-2000.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2002: [[America Award in Literature|America Award]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Green Integer Books – America Awards |url=http://www.greeninteger.com/america.cfm |website=www.greeninteger.com |access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>
* 2002: [[Honorary Doctor]], [[University of Klagenfurt]]<ref>[https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/mehr-kultur/329567-Handke-wird-Ehrendoktor-der-Universitaet-Klagenfurt.html Handke wird Ehrendoktor der Universität Klagenfurt] ''[[Wiener Zeitung]]''. 5 November 2002. Retrieved 10 October 2019</ref>
* 2003: Honorary Doctor, [[University of Salzburg]]<ref>[https://www.derstandard.at/story/1327985/peter-handke-ist-bald-zweifach-ehrendoktor Peter Handke ist bald zweifacher Ehrendoktor] ''[[Der Standard]]''. 13 June 2003. Retrieved 10 October 2019</ref>
*2008: [[Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste|Thomas-Mann-Preis]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Künste |first1=Bayerische Akademie der Schönen |title=Thomas-Mann-Preis der Hansestadt Lübeck und der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste |url=https://www.badsk.de/preise/thomas-mann-preis-der-hansestadt-lübeck-und-der-bayerischen-akademie-der-schönen-künste |website=[[Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste]] |access-date=10 October 2019 |language=de}}</ref>
*2009: [[Franz Kafka Prize]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Společnost Franze Kafky – Cena Franze Kafky |url=http://www.franzkafka-soc.cz/cena-franze-kafky/ |website=www.franzkafka-soc.cz |access-date=10 October 2019}}</ref>
* 2012: [[Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis an Peter Handke – derStandard.at |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/1338558988993/theaterwettbewerb-muelheimer-dramatikerpreis-an-peter-handke |access-date=11 October 2019 |work=[[Der Standard]] |date=8 June 2012 |language=de}}</ref>
* 2014: [[International Ibsen Award]]<ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/controversial-writer-wins-300-000-ibsen-award-1.1733767 Controversial writer wins €300,000 Ibsen award] ''[[Irish Times]]''. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014</ref>
* 2018: [[Nestroy Theatre Prize]] for Lifetime Achievement<ref>[https://diepresse.com/home/kultur/news/5510752/Peter-Handke-erhaelt-Nestroy-fuer-sein-Lebenswerk Peter Handke erhält Nestroy für sein Lebenswerk] ''[[Die Presse]]''. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018</ref>
* 2019: [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]<ref name="NYT-20191010">{{cite news |last1=Marshall |first1=Alex |last2=Alter |first2=Alexandra |title=Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/books/nobel-literature.html |date=10 October 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=10 October 2019 }}</ref>
* 2020: [[Order of Karađorđe's Star]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/125/drustvo/3852900/odlikovanje-dan-drzavnosti-sretenje-predsednik.html|title=Uručena odlikovanja povodom Dana državnosti|last=Serbia|first=RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of|website=www.rts.rs|access-date=15 February 2020}}</ref>
* 2021: [[Order of the Republika Srpska]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-07|title=Peter Handke doputovao u Banjaluku, primio Orden Republike Srpske|url=https://rs.n1info.com/region/peter-handke-doputovao-u-banjaluku-docekali-ga-dodik-i-kusturica/|access-date=2021-05-07|website=N1|language=sr-RS}}</ref>
* 2024: [[Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria|Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-22 |title=Bundespräsident ehrte Nobelpreisträger Zeilinger, Handke und Kandel |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000208692/bundespr228sident-ehrte-nobelpreistr228ger-zeilinger-handke-und-kandel |access-date=2024-02-24 |work=[[Der Standard]] |language=de}}</ref>

== Works ==
{{Main|Peter Handke bibliography}}
Handke has written novels, plays, screenplays, essays and poems, often published by [[Suhrkamp Verlag|Suhrkamp]].<ref name="Suhrkamp" /> Many works were translated into English. His works are held by the [[German National Library]], including:<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=118545574 | title = Peter Handke | language = de | work = Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek | publisher = [[German National Library]] | access-date = 16 February 2017}}</ref>

===Prose fiction===
* 1966 ''{{ill|Die Hornissen|de}}'' (''The Hornets''), novel
* 1970 ''[[The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick|Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter]]'' (''The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick''), novel and screenplay of the film ''[[The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty]]'' (1972)
* 1972 ''[[Short Letter, Long Farewell|Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied]]'' (''Short Letter, Long Farewell''), novel
* 1972 ''[[A Sorrow Beyond Dreams|Wunschloses Unglück]]'' (''A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story''), memoir
* 1975 ''[[A Moment of True Feeling|Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung]]'' (''A Moment of True Feeling''), novel
* 1976 ''Die linkshändige Frau'' (''The Left-Handed Woman'')
* 1979 ''[[Slow Homecoming|Langsame Heimkehr]]'' (''Slow Homecoming''), start of a tetralogy of stories, including ''Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire'' (1980), ''Über die Dörfer'' and ''{{ill|Kindergeschichte|de}}'' (1981)
* 1983 ''{{ill|Der Chinese des Schmerzes|de}}'' (''Across''), story
* 1986 ''[[Repetition (Handke novel)|Die Wiederholung]]'' (''Repetition''), novel
* 1994 ''[[My Year in the No-Man's-Bay|Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht. Ein Märchen aus den neuen Zeiten]]'' (''My Year in the No-Man's-Bay''), novel
* 1997 ''In einer dunklen Nacht ging ich aus meinem stillen Haus'' (''On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House'')
* 2002 ''[[Crossing the Sierra de Gredos|Der Bildverlust oder Durch die Sierra de Gredos]]'' (''Crossing the Sierra de Gredos''), novel
* 2004 ''Don Juan (erzählt von ihm selbst)'' (''Don Juan: His Own Version'')
* 2008 ''[[The Moravian Night|Die morawische Nacht]]'' (''The Moravian Night''), novel
* 2009 ''Bis dass der Tag euch scheidet oder Eine Frage des Lichts: ein Monolog'' (''Till Day You Do Part or A Question of Light'')
* 2011 ''Der Große Fall'' (''The Great Fall'')
* 2017 ''Die Obstdiebin oder Einfache Fahrt ins Landesinnere'' (''The Fruit Thief or One-Way Journey into the Interior'')
* 2020 ''Das zweite Schwert'' (''The Second Sword'')
* 2021 ''Mein Tag im anderen Land'' (''My Day in the Other Land'')
* 2023 ''[[Die Ballade des letzten Gastes]]''

===Plays===
* 1966 ''[[Offending the Audience|Publikumsbeschimpfung]] und andere Sprechstücke'' (''Offending the Audience and Other Spoken Plays''), play, English version as ''Offending the Audience and Self-accusation''
* 1967 ''[[Kaspar (play)|Kaspar]]'', play, English version also as ''Kaspar and Other Plays''
* 1973 ''{{ill|Die Unvernünftigen sterben aus|de}}'', play<!--Regie: [[Horst Zankl]], [[Zürich]]: [[Theater am Neumarkt]], 1974-->
* 1990 ''[[The Winter's Tale|Das Wintermärchen]]'', William Shakespeare, German translation by Peter Handke. Première Schaubühne Berlin (1990)
* 1992 ''[[The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other|Die Stunde, da wir nichts voneinander wußten]]'' (''The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other''), play
* 2010 ''[[Storm Still|Immer noch Sturm]]'' (''Storm Still''), a play about the Slovenian uprising against Hitler in 1945, {{ISBN|978-3-518-42131-4}}; first performance: [[Salzburg Festival]] 2011
* 2018 ''Peter Handke Bibliothek''. I. Prose, Poetry, Plays (Vol. 1–9), {{ISBN|978-3-518-42781-1}}; II. Essays (Vol. 10–11), {{ISBN|978-3-518-42782-8}}; III Diaries (Vol. 13–14), {{ISBN|978-3-518-42783-5}}
* 2021 {{cite book | last1=Handke | first1=Peter | last2=Winston | first2=Krishna | title=The fruit thief, or, One-way journey into the interior | publication-place=New York | date=2022 | isbn=978-0-374-90650-4 | oclc=1276901930}}

=== Films ===

* 1971 ''Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse'' (''Chronicle of Current Events'')
* 1977 ''[[The Left-Handed Woman|Die linkshändige Frau]]'' (''The Left-Handed Woman''), after his 1976 novel
* 1985 ''Das Mal des Todes'' (''The Malady of Death''), after [[Marguerite Duras]]' 1982 novella

* 1992 ''L'Absence'' (''The Absence'')

=== Screenplays ===
* 1969 ''3 amerikanische LP's'' (''3 American LPs''), film by Wim Wenders
* 1972 ''Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter'' (''The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick''), film by Wim Wenders
* 1975 ''Falsche Bewegung'' (''Wrong Move''), film by Wim Wenders
* 1987 ''Der Himmel über Berlin'' (''Wings of Desire''), film by [[Wim Wenders]]

== See also ==

* [[List of Austrian writers]]

== References ==
<references>
<ref name="Hutchinson">{{cite news
| last = Hutchinson
| first = Ben
| url = https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/peter-handkes-wilful-controversies/
| title = Peter Handke's wilful controversies
| work = [[The Times Literary Supplement]]
| date = 23 August 2011
| access-date = 11 October 2019
}}</ref>

<ref name="Wenders">{{cite web
| last = Wenders
| first = Wim
| url = http://www.wim-wenders.com/bio/peter_handke_bio.htm
| title = Peter Handke
| website = wim-wenders.com
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100825203103/http://www.wim-wenders.com/bio/peter_handke_bio.htm
| archive-date = 25 August 2010
| url-status = dead
| access-date = 16 September 2010
}}</ref>

<ref name="Britannica">{{cite encyclopedia
| url = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/254210/Peter-Handke
| title = Peter Handke
| encyclopedia = [[Britannica.com]]
| date = 7 October 2023
}}</ref>

<ref name="Munzinger">{{cite web
| url = https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/peter+handke/0/11390.html
| title = Peter Handke / österreichischer Schriftsteller
| website = munzinger.de
| language = de
| access-date = 11 October 2019
}}</ref>

<ref name="Suhrkamp">{{cite web
| url = https://www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/peter_handke_1738.html
| title = Peter Handke / österreichischer Schriftsteller
| website = suhrkamp.de
| publisher = Suhrkamp Verlag
| language = de
| access-date = 11 October 2019
}}</ref>
</references>

== Further reading ==
*Abbott, Scott and Žarko Radaković (2013). [https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25578 ''Repetitions''.] Brooklyn/NYC: Punctum Books.  
* [[Malte Herwig|Herwig, Malte]] (2010). ''Meister der Dämmerung. Peter Handke. Eine Biografie''. München: DVA (official biography in German).
*Höller, Hans (2007). ''Peter Handke.'' Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt.
* [[W. G. Sebald|Sebald, W. G.]] (2013). ''[https://thelastbooks.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Sebald_Across_the_Border.pdf Across the Border: Peter Handke's Repetition]''. Amsterdam, Sofia: The Last Books.
* [[Heinz-Norbert Jocks]], Peter Handke: ''Über die Freiheit des Unterwegsseins. Ein Gespräch mit Peter Handke.'' In: ''[[Basler Zeitung]].'' 25. September 2004.

== External links ==
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* [https://www.onb.ac.at/bibliothek/sammlungen/literatur/bestaende/personen/handke-peter-geb-1942/ Peter Handke (geb. 1942) / Schriftsteller] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011085525/https://www.onb.ac.at/bibliothek/sammlungen/literatur/bestaende/personen/handke-peter-geb-1942/ |date=11 October 2019 }} Literaturarchiv der [[Österreichische Nationalbibliothek|Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek]]
* [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/person/gnd/118545574 Peter Handke / Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Romancier, Lyriker, Essayist, Übersetzer, Drehbuchautor, Regisseur, Zeichner, Nobelpreisträger / Geboren: 1942, Griffen] Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160426070411/http://ub.fu-berlin.de/internetquellen/fachinformation/germanistik/autoren/multi_fgh/handke.html Peter Handke] Library of the [[Free University of Berlin]]
* [http://noblib.internet-box.ch/NLEW.php?authorid=146 List of works]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724210325/http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/wingsofdesire/wod-song-of-childhood.htm Peter Handke, ''Song of childhood''] (poem) Wim Wenders
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* Karl-Erik Tallmo: [http://art-bin.com/art/ahandkee.html "A son's long good-bye" / About the writings of Peter Handke / (until Die Wiederholung, 1986)] ''[[Svenska Dagbladet]]'', 23 September 1988
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* [https://www.mediathek.at/redirect.json?hash=9d3234Er&no_cache=1&searchQuery=1979&cHash=14cc9adfbfdc7c3f0c0a8db87adf35cb Sound recordings with Peter Handke] in the Online Archive of the [[Österreichische Mediathek]] (Literary readings, interviews and radio reports) {{in lang|de}}

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