Han ble tildelt Nobelprisen i litteratur i 2019. Hans tekster er oversatt til rundt 70 språk, deriblant norsk.
Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. He came to early prominence in the 1960s for such experimental plays as Kaspar and rapidly established himself as one of the most respected German-language writers of his generation... Repetition (German: Die Wiederholung) is a 1986 novel by the Austrian writer Peter Handke.