Peter Handke
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Birth Date 6 Dec 1942
Place of Birth Griffen, Austria
Personal Name Peter Handke
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."