Peter Handke's Nobel prize that dishonours the victims of genocide | Ed Vuilliamy
Whatever his literary merits, the author’s dismal morals should have disqualified him
by Ed Vulliamy
Oct 12, 2019
3 minutes
So, the highest award in literature goes to a writer who denies the existence of concentration camps that it was my accursed honour to find in Bosnia in 1992, who lauded Slobodan Milošević, mastermind of the hurricane of violence of which they were part, and contests the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995.
is an apologist for genocide within living memory, at the heart of Europe. He says one thing, while earth across. While Handke proffers his views, the bones are facts.
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