{"id":31844,"date":"2020-03-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=31844"},"modified":"2022-09-25T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:17:48","slug":"nobel-prize-in-literature-2019-the-journey-of-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/nobel-prize-in-literature-2019-the-journey-of-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in Literature 2019: the journey of controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Le Regard Libre N\u00ba 59 - Ivan Garcia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Austrian writer Peter Handke, one of the most widely read German-language authors in the world, for his outstanding body of work. However, the new laureate soon provoked criticism and indignation, especially in the Balkans, for his \u00abpro-Serbian\u00bb or even revisionist stance on the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. He wrote a book about this conflict, the account of a trip he made in 1995, which caused a media uproar. The current controversy over the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature highlights the limits of what can and must be said about the world, and about a writer's mission: to howl with the wolves or to stand out from the herd?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the article\n

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