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Austrian writer Peter Handke poses in Chaville, in the Paris surburbs, on October 10, 2019 after he was awarded with the 2019 Nobel Literature Prize. Austrian Peter Handke, one of the most original German-language writers alive, who once used his famously sharp tongue to call for the Nobel Prize in Literature to be abolished, was awarded with the 2019 Nobel Literature Prize on October 10. The prize brings its winner "false canonisation" along with "one moment of attention (and) six pages in the newspaper," the novelist, playwright, poet and translator told Austrian media in 2014. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)