PETER HANDKE Novelist Griffen, Austria, 6 December 1942

Foreign member

Department of Language and Literature

 

Membership of SASA
Department of Language and Literature, foreign member since  1 November 2012

Field of study
literature: writer, screenwriter, translator

Awards and recognitions
Georg Büchner Prize (1973);
Vilenica International Literary Prize (1997);
America Award-lifetime achievement literary award for international writers (2002);
Great Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (2008);
Franz Kafka Prize (2009)
Dramatist award of Mülheim (Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis) (2012);
International Ibsen Award (2014);
Nestroy Theatre Prize (2018);
Nobel Prize for Literature (2019);