Peter Handke

Known for
Writing
Gender
Male
Born
December 6, 1942
Age
83
From
Griffen, Austria

Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942, in Griffen, Austria) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 2019, Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."