Peter Handke
Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright, and translator, he is the author of such acclaimed works as The Moravian Night, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and Repetition. The recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award, Handke is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed adaptations of his novels The Left-Handed Woman and Absence, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders’ Wrong Movie and Wings of Desire. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.
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On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Krishna Winston
Picador
Picador
A short, powerful new novel by one of the greatest writers in the German language.
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's...
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The Left-Handed Woman
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
Picador
Picador
A young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside of being a wife and mother in Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke’s The Left-Handed Woman.
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Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Krishna Winston
Picador
Picador
In this visionary novel, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing; he creates a wealth of images...
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Repetition
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
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Picador
Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's Repetition tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only...
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My Year in the No-Man's-Bay
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Krishna Winston
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Picador
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's autobiographical novel My Year in No-Man's Bay is "a meditation on two decades of a writer's life culminating in a solitary, sobering year of reckoning"...
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A Moment of True Feeling
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
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Picador
At the beginning of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel A Moment of True Feeling, Gregor Keuschnig awakens from a nightmare in which he has committed murder, and announces, "From...
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The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim and Krishna Winston
Picador
Picador
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to the Austria of his childhood, while illuminating the act of writing...
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The Afternoon of a Writer
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
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Picador
In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Afternoon of a Writer, a writer, fearful of losing his abilities and hence his connection with the world, takes an afternoon walk and has several...
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The Weight of the World
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
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Picador
A combination of professional notebook and personal diary that records -- both in short, informal jottings and through more formal, extended meditations -- the details of Handke's daily life in Paris...
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The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Michael Roloff in collaboration with Karl Weber
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Picador
A collection of six plays by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, spanning the early years of the Austrian playwright's career
The first full-length play The Ride Across Lake...
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The Moravian Night
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Krishna Winston
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
An odyssey through the mind and memory of a washed-up writer, from one of Europe’s most provocative novelists, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke
Mysteriously...
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
FSG Classics
Peter Handke; Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke--“the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games” (Kirkus)--ponders the life and...
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Don Juan: His Own Version
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Krishna Winston
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history's most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence
Don Juan's story—"his...
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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
FSG Classics
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Michael Roloff
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that "portrays the…breakdown...
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Absence
Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
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Picador
The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
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Slow Homecoming
Peter Handke; Translated by Ralph Manheim
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In this haunting suite of three fictions, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke cements his reputation as one of the most talented writers of the Twentieth Century
In "The Long...
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Short Letter, Long Farewell
Peter Handke
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Short Letter, Long Farewell tells the story of a young Austrian--evidently modeled on the author--on a harrowing month's journey across the...
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Kaspar and Other Plays
Peter Handke; Translated by Michael Roloff
Picador
Picador
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to Waiting for Godot
Kaspar...
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