Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has angrily lashed out against awarding Austrian writer Peter Handke with a Nobel Prize. Handke is accused of denying the 1995 Bosnian genocide and of being a “great admirer of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.” In a Jihad Watch article, Hugh Fitzgerald stated this about Handke: Peter Handke, a writer, […]
The Nobels In Literature: Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke
Several friends of mine always wait for the Nobel announcements to finish each year before they then tote up the “scores” for various nationalities and religions. Although these awards are for individual (and for the Peace Nobel, sometimes institutional) achievement, my friends can’t help themselves: they want to know, first of all, “how many Americans […]