Introducing Peter Handke Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director and screen writer .He was born in 6 December 1947 in Griffen in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Handke also wrote short stories, essays, radio dramas and autobiographical works. Through his works, Handke explores everyday reality and their accompanying rational order with their constraining and underlying irrationality, confusion, and even madness. He has been conferred the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.’ He has also received many other awards including the George Buchner Prize in 1973 and the Austrian Theatre Prize for life time achievement in 2018. Introducing a few works by Peter Handke: 1) Offending the Audience : A play. It is sometimes called an 'anti-play' because of its renouncement of theatricality. It was originally publis