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One of the few novelists to ever make an impact as a director.

Drew criticism in the West for his strong pro-Serbian views during the Kosovo conflict.

Made director John Ford a character in his novel "Short Letter, Long Farewell".

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 248-255. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989

Longtime companion of actress Katja Flint from 2001 to 2006.

His daughter Amina was born on 20 April 1969.

While studying law at the University of Graz from 1961 to 1965, he established himself as writer with the Grazer Gruppe (Graz Author's Assembly). Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek were amongst the other members.

Has lived in Chaville near Paris, France since 1991.

Although being nominated for the Heinrich Heine Prize by a jury, the city council of Düsseldorf didn't accept this decision because Handke spoke at the funeral of former Yugoslavian dictator Slobodan Milosevic (June 2006).

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1983.

His most noted works include "The Hornets" (1966), "Offending the Audience and Other Spoken Plays" (1966), "The Left-Handed Woman" (1976), "Across" (1983), "My Year in the No-Man's-Bay" (1994) and "Kali" (2007).

After leaving his hometown Graz in 1965, he has lived in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Kronberg, Germany, Paris, in the United States, Salzburg, Austria and Chaville, France.

Was romantically linked to Sophie Semin, who gave birth to their daughter Léocadie in 1992.

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