Peter Handke
Known For
Writing
Born
December 6, 1942 (83 years old)
Birthplace
Griffen, Austria
Biography
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."
