Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019, announced October 10, 2019. Peter Handke, “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”. Peter Handke: born 1942, Griffen, Austria. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).