“I prefer toilet paper to your empty and ignorant questions.” The Peter Handke drama rolls on.

Today saw two new developments in the ongoing Peter Handke controversy, which has set the literary world ablaze since October 10 when the Swedish Academy announced the Austrian writer/Slobodan Miloševic eulogist as the joint winner (with Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk) of the 2019 Prize. The first happened this morning, when current member and former permanent secretary of […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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