{"id":114049,"date":"2019-10-11T01:27:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/11\/a-troubling-choice-authors-criticise-peter-handkes-controversial-nobel-win\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T23:27:12","slug":"a-troubling-choice-authors-criticise-peter-handkes-controversial-nobel-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=114049","title":{"rendered":"&#039;A troubling choice&#039;: authors criticise Peter Handke&#039;s controversial Nobel win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writers including Salman Rushdie, Hari Kunzru and Slavoj \u017di\u017eek say the 2019 Nobel laureate \u2018combines great insight with shocking ethical blindness\u2019Olga Tokarczuk: the dreadlocked feminist winner the Nobel neededTwenty years before Peter Handke would become a Nobel laureate, he won another title. In 1999, Salman Rushdie named him the runner-up for \u201cInternational moron of the year\u201d in the Guardian, for his \u201cseries of impassioned apologias for the genocidal regime of Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107\u201d. (The winner was actor Charlton Heston, for being a gun lobbyist.)The Austrian playwright, whose Slovenian heritage had inspired in him a fervent nationalism during the Balkans war, had publicly suggested that Sarajevo\u2019s Muslims had massacred themselves and blamed the Serbs, and denied the Srebrenica genocide. Seven years after Rushdie\u2019s scorching condemnation, in 2006, he would also attend war criminal Milo\u0161evi\u0107\u2019s funeral. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/oct\/10\/troubling-choice-authors-criticise-peter-handke-controversial-nobel-win\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;A troubling choice&#039;: authors criticise Peter Handke&#039;s controversial Nobel win<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers including Salman Rushdie, Hari Kunzru and Slavoj \u017di\u017eek say the 2019 Nobel laureate \u2018combines great insight with shocking ethical blindness\u2019Olga Tokarczuk: the dreadlocked feminist winner the Nobel neededTwenty years before Peter Handke would become a Nobel laureate, he won another title. In 1999, Salman Rushdie named him the runner-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}