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'A troubling choice': authors criticise Peter Handke's controversial Nobel win by Sian Cain

Writers including Salman Rushdie, Hari Kunzru and Slavoj Žižek say the 2019 Nobel laureate 'combines great insight with shocking ethical blindness' Olga Tokarczuk: the dreadlocked feminist winner the Nobel needed Twenty years before Peter Handke would become a Nobel laureate, he won another title. In 1999, Salman Rushdie named him the runner-up for "International moron of the year" in the Guardian, for his "ser…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PM on October 10, 2019

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