Peter Handke

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-12-06 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Griffen, Austria

Peter Handke

Biography

Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942, in Griffen, Austria) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 2019, Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."

Production

1987

Wings of Desire

as Screenplay

1969

1978

1993

The Absence

as Director

1993

The Absence

as Novel

1993

The Absence

as Writer

1985

1985

The Malady of Death

as Screenplay

1978

1975

Wrong Move

as Screenplay

1998

City of Angels

as Original Film Writer

1974

Kaspar

as Writer

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