21 minutes agoHandke: I don't have Yugoslav citizenship, but passport yes
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Austrian novelist Peter Handke, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, has acknowledged having had the passport of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He has said he has a passport, but has denied having Yugoslav citizenship as well, Tanjug writes. I don't have Yugoslav citizenship, I just got my passport to travel”, there's [...]
Austrian novelist Peter Handke, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, has acknowledged having had the passport of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
He has said he has a passport, but has denied having Yugoslav citizenship as well, Tanjug writes.
I don't have Yugoslav citizenship, I just took my passport to travel”, he said of Vecernje Novosti.
The Nobel Prize for Literature given to the controversial novelist Peter Handke sparked numerous reactions in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond.
That is because Peter Handke had not concealed his admiration for the regime of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Kosovo reports.
Handke had even attended the Balkan Casap funeral, with what he had given a speech in which he had honoured Milosevic.
Renowned American journalist Peter Maass has found that Peter Handkes has been offered Yugoslav passports, just when the war was ending in Kosovo.
Serbia's “Passport was issued by the Yugoslav Embassy in Vienna on 15 June 1999. On the left side of the passport, just above Handkes' photograph, writes that his nationality is Yugoslav”.
