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'A troubling choice': authors criticise Peter Handke's controversial Nobel
win
Twenty years before Peter Handke would become a Nobel laureate, he won another
title. In 1999, Salman Rushdie named him the runner-up for “International moron
of the year” in the Guardian, for his “series of impassioned apologias for the
genocidal regime of Slobodan Milošević”. (The winner was actor Charlton Heston,
for being a gun lobbyist.)
The Austrian playwright, whose Slovenian heritage had inspired in him a fervent
nationalism during the Balkans war, had publicly suggested that Sarajevo’s
Muslims had massacred themselves and blamed the Serbs, and denied the Srebrenica
genocide. Seven years after Rushdie’s scorching condemnation, in 2006, he would
also attend war criminal Milošević’s funeral.
On Thursday, after the announcement of Handke’s win of the 9m Swedish krona
prize (£786,000), Rushdie told the Guardian: “I have nothing to add today, but I
stand by what I wrote then.”
The decision to award Handke the 2019 laureateship – alongside Poland’s Olga
Tokarczuk for the 2018 medal – was widely criticised by observers as a broken
promise on two fronts.
First, the Swedish Academy’s apparent commitment to be less “male-oriented” and
“Eurocentric” just days before had been quickly proven false, with two European
winners and only the 15th female laureate in 120 years. Secondly, having
declared that the prize would take a fallow year to reassess its direction after
a now infamous sexual harassment scandal, the academy had left observers hopeful
that the Nobel would stop eliding controversy with intellectual rigour, and
choose authors that could be praised for both their work and their politics.
“Handke is a troubling choice for a Nobel committee that is trying to put the
prize on track after recent scandals,” said author Hari Kunzru, who has taught
the laureate’s work to his students. “He is a fine writer, who combines great
insight with shocking ethical blindness.”
Kunzru said he believed that Handke would have won the Nobel earlier, “had he
not decided to act as a propagandist for the genocidal Milošević regime”. He
added: “More than ever we need public intellectuals who are able to make a
robust defence of human rights in the face of the indifference and cynicism of
our political leaders. Handke is not such a person.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/troubling-choice-authors-criticise-peter-handke-controversial-nobel-win