WRITER

Peter Handke

1942 - Today

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Peter Handke (German pronunciation: [ˈpeːtɐ ˈhantkə]; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century. In the late 1960s, he earned his reputation as a member of the avant-garde with such plays as Offending the Audience (1966) in which actors analyze the nature of theatre and alternately insult the audience and praise its "performance", and Kaspar (1967). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Handke has received more than 1,182,520 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Peter Handke is the 251st most popular writer (down from 219th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Austria (down from 58th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Writer.

Peter Handke is most famous for his novel "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick."

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Die Hornissen
1966
Wunschloses Unglück
1972
Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire
1980
Kaspar
1967
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter
1970
Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied
1972

Page views of Peter Handkes by language

Over the past year Peter Handke has had the most page views in the with 116,639 views, followed by English (104,223), and French (27,059). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (153.44%), Ido (91.56%), and Belarusian (58.00%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Handke ranks 251 out of 7,302. Before him are Halldór Laxness, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paula Hitler, Germaine de Staël, Valmiki, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca. After him are Kālidāsa, Nelly Sachs, François Mauriac, Anna Akhmatova, Shota Rustaveli, and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Peter Handke ranks 18. Before him are Jimi Hendrix, Ratko Mladić, Scatman John, Ehud Barak, Dino Zoff, and Isabel Allende. After him are Barbra Streisand, Brian Wilson, Ronnie James Dio, John Wayne Gacy, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and Ted Kaczynski.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Peter Handke ranks 64 out of 1,424. Before him are Oskar Kokoschka (1886), Fritz Lang (1890), Martin Buber (1878), Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527), Robert Musil (1880), and Paula Hitler (1896). After him are Pope Gregory V (972), Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861), Josef Bican (1913), Kurt Waldheim (1918), Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833), and Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Peter Handke ranks 3. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883), and Stefan Zweig (1881). After him are Peter Drucker (1909), Robert Musil (1880), Arthur Schnitzler (1862), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Sándor Márai (1900), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Paula Hitler (1896), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), and Georg Trakl (1887).

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