Austrian Nobel laureate writer Peter Handke, known for genocide denial and his support for the regime of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, will be welcomed in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday by the Chairman of BiH’s tripartite Presidency, Milorad Dodik.
Handke, who was declared persona non grata in Sarajevo, will arrive in Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Bosnia’s Serb-majority Republika Srpska (RS) entity will also be welcomed by RS President, Zeljka Cvijanovic, RS Prime Minister, Radovan Viskovic, and University of Banja Luka Rector, Radoslav Gajanin and filmmaker Emir Kusturica, according to the SRNA news agency.
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The controversial writer will then go to Andricgrad where he will be presented the ‘The Grand Prize Ivo Andric’.
The decision by the Swedish Academy to award Handke the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience” caused an uproar in Bosnia, but also throughout Europe.
It also sparked protests in Stockholm during the award ceremony, when several hundred mostly Bosnians gathered to raise their voice against the decision.
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