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A key member of the Swedish Academy, Peter Englund, announces he is boycotting the Nobel Prize ceremonies. "To celebrate Peter Handke's Nobel Prize would be gross hypocrisy on my part," he tells Dagens Nyheter. Stunning development. web.archive.org/web/2019120609…
Stunning because the Academy is small - just 18 seats - and Englund is the only member with firsthand experience in Bosnia (where Handke is accused of genocide denial). Earlier this week, two members of the Nobel Committee for Literature resigned, one explicitly citing Handke.
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Peter Maass
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Now translated into Bosnian by Mediacentar Sarajevo, here's my story on the Nobel Prize for Literature and conspiracy theories about the Bosnia war. media.ba/bs/magazin-nov…
Here's the story in its original English version, published by @theintercept in November. theintercept.com/2019/11/14/pet…
@theintercept Here's the Spanish version, published by @Letras_Libras. letraslibres.com/espana-mexico/…
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Peter Handke, who is widely regarded as a denier of the genocide in Bosnia, has taken his seat in the Stockholm Concert House. The king of Sweden will shortly present him with the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, in the Stockholm Concert House, has expressed no reservations about the Nobel Prize for Literature going to Peter Handke. He will shortly present the Nobel medal to Handke.
There it is, Peter Handke has received the Nobel Prize for Literature from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. #Shocking
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Journalists who covered the war in Bosnia are taking a stand against the Nobel Prize going to Peter Handke. Using the hashtag #BosniaWarJournalists, they're describing what they witnessed in the 1990s. Tomorrow, Sweden's king is scheduled to give the Nobel to Handke.
So far, there's Christiane Amanpour, Samantha Power, Roger Cohen, Sheri Fink, Jeremy Bowen, Gilles Peress, Janine di Giovanni, among others. Reporters who chronicled the Serb genocide of Muslims are saying the literature Nobel is going to a writer who denies what happened.
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Florian Bieber
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#Handke gave a long interview for @DIEZEIT recently. I noticed it got little attention in English debate. Thus, a long thread on it. Instead of being self-reflective, he retains his support for extreme Serb nationalist positions & distorts facts. zeit.de/2019/48/peter-…
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Eine Dalmatienreise im September 2008. Im Gepäck unter anderem "Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht" von Peter #Handke. Rückblick an eines der intensivsten Literaturerlebnisse meines Lebens. Aus Anlass. #Karst
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