The Nobel Prize in Literature is no stranger to controversy, most recently prompting hand-wringing when it awarded Bob Dylan the literary world's highest honor back in 2016. On Thursday, though, with ...

In his Nobel lecture at the weekend, 2019 literature prize winner Peter Handke again sought to evade the issue of his support for Slobodan Milosevic and denial of Bosnian war crimes - but his clumsy ...

The Austrian writer Peter Handke has an international reputation. But in recent years, owing to his ties to the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, Handke has been the subject of controversy. In ...

Nobel literature laureate Peter Handke, who backed Serbia during the wars in ex-Yugoslavia, receives his prize at a gala ceremony Tuesday in Stockholm, where hundreds are expected to protest. The ...

Earlier this month the 2019 Nobel laureate in literature, Peter Handke, gave his inaugural lecture in front of the Swedish Academy. The best-known work from the Austrian author’s vast oeuvre is ...

Peter Handke was applauded by the attendees at Tuesday's ceremony in Stockholm Austrian author Peter Handke has received his Nobel prize for Literature at a ceremony in Sweden. The choice of Handke ...

Peter Handke, the controversial winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, was given a Yugoslav passport in the summer of 1999 under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, for whom he has expressed ...

Austrian author Peter Handke faced protests and boycotts over his backing of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, as he received the Nobel prize for Literature at a ceremony in Sweden. The ...