Peter Handke: Quick Facts

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Born	December 6, 1942 (age 83) • Austria
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (2019)
Notable Works	“A Sorrow Beyond Dreams” • “Crossing the Sierra de Gredos” • “My Foot My Tutor” • “Offending the Audience” • “On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House” • “Slow Homecoming” • “The Absence” • “The Fruit Thief; or, One-Way Journey into the Interior” • “The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick” • “The Great Fall” • “The Left-Handed Woman” • “The Ride Across Lake Constance”