Peter Handke: Facts & Related Content
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Books out this week come from Nobel winners and independent presses
• Dec. 2, 2025, 5:37 AM ET (NPR)
Facts
| Born | December 6, 1942 (age 83) • Austria |
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| Awards And Honors | Nobel Prize (2019) |
| Notable Works | “A Sorrow Beyond Dreams” • “Crossing the Sierra de Gredos” • “My Foot My Tutor” • “Offending the Audience” • “On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House” • “Slow Homecoming” • “The Absence” • “The Fruit Thief; or, One-Way Journey into the Interior” • “The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick” • “The Great Fall” • “The Left-Handed Woman” • “The Ride Across Lake Constance” |
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