Austrian writer and winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature Peter Handke waves to the audience during his Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Dec. 7, 2019. (AFP Photo)
VIENNA: Austrian Peter Handke, considered one of the most original German-language writers alive, may have seen his career crowned with a Nobel Prize, but the accolade was overshadowed by controversy over his outspoken support for the Serbs during the conflicts that ravaged the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.