How do they reason with Peter Handken ?

Regarding such a decision for The New York Times, Swedish Academy Secretary Mats Malm has spoken, who has said that “is not in the academy's mandate to balance literary quality in relation to political positions”.

Meanwhile the other side CNN has also asked a comment from the Nobel Foundation about the decision to grant Handkes the award for literature.

From this phenomenon, they have said that “sometimes does not comment on independent selections given by institutions that choose Nobel Prize laureates”.

The ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo in Washington, Vlora Citaku, former Foreign Minister Petrit Selimi, world famous writer Selman Rushdie and historian from Great Britain, have also been shocked with such a decision by the Swedish Academy.

Handke has attended the Balkan butcher's funeral ceremony, Slobodan Milosevic.