Peter Handke Quotes


We behave as if being alone were a problem.


Citations

Handke, Peter. The Weight of the World. Translated by Ralph Manheim, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984.

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Peter Handke
Peter Handke
  • Born: December 6, 1942
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Profession: Novelist

Peter Handke is a Nobel laureate novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter from Austria. Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. The decision to award Handke a Nobel Prize was denounced internationally by a variety of public and academic intellectuals, writers, and journalists, who cited his support of the late Slobodan Milošević and Bosnian genocide denial.