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RSS FeedsOutrage in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo over Handke`s Nobel win
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11 october 2019 05:36:43

 
Outrage in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo over Handke`s Nobel win
(Artdaily.org)
 


Austrian writer Peter Handke`s Nobel literature prize win on Thursday sparked outrage in Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo, where he is widely seen as an admirer of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic. In the 1990s, Handke emerged as a vocal defender of the Serbs during the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia, even comparing them to Jews under the Nazis, a remark he later retracted. His 1996 travelogue `A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia`, caused a storm, and in 1999 he returned Germany`s prestigious Buechner prize in protest at NATO`s bombing of Belgrade. `Never thought would feel to vomit because of a Nobel Prize,` Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote on Twitter. `Given disgraceful choice made from a moral authority like the Nobel Academy, shame is sealed as a new value. No, we can`t become


 
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