5 hours agoTop NOBEL officials to boycott Pro-Serbian Handke Award ceremony
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Austrian pro-Serbian writer Peter Handke will today receive his Nobel Prize in Stockholm for Literature, which almost everyone has disputed. Former senior Swedish Academy officials have even decided to boycott today's Handken Award division ceremony. So has the former permanent secretary [...] decided.
Former senior Swedish Academy officials have even decided to boycott today's Handken Award division ceremony.
Thus has former Swedish Academy Permanent Secretary Peter England, who will not take part in the event of the division of the award for Austrian supportive writer Slobodan Milosevic.
To celebrate the Nobel Prize for Peter Handken would be a great hypocrisy on my side”, England said The Guardian, broadcast Express.
Handke last day has arrived in the Swedish capital from where he has held a media conference with multiple clashes.
The Austrian writer has attacked reporters present at the conference who have asked him questions about the support he gave Slobodan Milosevic and about why he never wrote about the Serbian genocide in Bosnia in his books.
Hand it over to such questions as <x0-indirect”, saying he doesn't want to deal with this part.
A campaign against Handkes has also been launched on social networks. Someone has edited the Nobel logo, and wrote “Not in my name”.
