SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian war survivors, including mothers who lost husbands and sons in the Srebrenica massacre, protested Tuesday in Sarajevo, urging the Nobel Committee to reverse its decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke. Protesters gathered outside the Swedish embassy in downtown Sarajevo carrying banners with slogans comparing Handke with Serbian strongman …
PEN America slams decision to award literary prize to Austrian author, who has denied the Srebrenica genocide. Austrian writer Peter Handke’s Nobel literature prize win on Thursday has sparked outrage in Bosnia and Kosovo, where he is widely seen as an apologist of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. “Milosevic’s supporter and denier of Serbian genocide receives the Nobel Literature Prize,” …
