'A troubling #choice': authors criticise Peter #Handke's controversial #Nobel win
The Austrian playwright, whose Slovenian heritage had inspired in him a fervent nationalism during the Balkans war, had publicly suggested that #Sarajevo’s #Muslims had massacred themselves and blamed the Serbs, and denied the #Srebrenica #genocide. Seven years after #Rushdie’s scorching condemnation, in 2006, he would also attend war criminal #Milošević’s funeral.
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