What do world media write about “nobelistin” Peter Handke

The decision to reward Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk was welcomed. While the decision to separate this Austrian author, Peter Handke, sparked numerous reactions around the world.

That is because writer Peter Handke had not concealed the sympathy he had for former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic (known as the Balkan Cusap).

Handke had even been to Milosevic's funeral, where he had given a short speech.

“He had publicly said that Sarajevo Muslims had slaughtered themselves and then blamed Serbs”.

“I am happy to be near Slobodan Milosevic, who protected his people”, he said at Pozharevc Freedom Square.

In addition to the reactions it sparked in Kosovo, the event did not escape international media either.

The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC News, calls writer Handke a contractive figure who supported the Serbian regime for Yugoslav Wars during the 1990s.

The Association of Writers in the United States has come up with a communique through which it has criticised the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, writer Peter Handken.

“THE American PEN, generally does not comment on the literature prices the other institutions give. We know these decisions are subjective and the criteria are not uniform. However, this declaration for awarding the Nobel Prize to Peter Handke must be an exception”.

The British daily newspaper The Guardian writes that the Slovenian legacy had sparked Austrian playwright a fiery nationalism for the wars in the Balkans.

He had publicly said that Sarajevo Muslims had slaughtered themselves and then blamed the Serbs. He had also attended the funeral of criminal Slobodan Milosevic”.

While the online newspaper The Intercept, which aims to hold governments and corporations responsible around the world, has congratulated the Nobel Committee on the decision made, saying that “you just gave the Prize for Literature to a sponsor of genocide”.