1942 - Today
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 Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019 "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). His novels, mostly ultraobjective, deadpan accounts of characters in extreme states of mind, include The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970) and The Left-Handed Woman (1976). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Handke has received more than 962,919 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Peter Handke is the 187th most popular writer (up from 553rd in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Austria (up from 121st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Writer.
Peter Handke is most famous for his novel "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick."
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Among writers, Peter Handke ranks 187 out of 5,794. Before him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal, John the Evangelist, Diogenes Laërtius, Khalil Gibran, Georges Simenon, and Mansur Al-Hallaj. After him are Stéphane Mallarmé, Yukio Mishima, Nizami Ganjavi, Tristan Tzara, Lucian, and Sigrid Undset.
780 - 855
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 181
10 - 100
HPI: 79.69
Rank: 182
180 - 240
HPI: 79.69
Rank: 183
1883 - 1931
HPI: 79.63
Rank: 184
1903 - 1989
HPI: 79.60
Rank: 185
858 - 922
HPI: 79.59
Rank: 186
1942 - Present
HPI: 79.57
Rank: 187
1842 - 1898
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 188
1925 - 1970
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 189
1141 - 1209
HPI: 79.50
Rank: 190
1896 - 1963
HPI: 79.44
Rank: 191
120 - 200
HPI: 79.39
Rank: 192
1882 - 1949
HPI: 79.38
Rank: 193
Among people born in 1942, Peter Handke ranks 13. Before him are Joe Biden, Eusébio, Jimi Hendrix, Ratko Mladić, Hu Jintao, and Harrison Ford. After him are Barbra Streisand, Ronnie James Dio, Isabel Allende, Aretha Franklin, Scatman John, and Dino Zoff.
1942 - Present
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 7
1942 - 2014
HPI: 82.00
Rank: 8
1942 - 1970
HPI: 81.89
Rank: 9
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.60
Rank: 10
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.41
Rank: 11
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 12
1942 - Present
HPI: 79.57
Rank: 13
1942 - Present
HPI: 79.55
Rank: 14
1942 - 2010
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 15
1942 - Present
HPI: 77.92
Rank: 16
1942 - 2018
HPI: 77.85
Rank: 17
1942 - 1999
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 18
1942 - Present
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 19
Among people born in Austria, Peter Handke ranks 46 out of 1,075. Before him are Theodoric the Great (454), Viktor Frankl (1905), Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1557), Kurt Gödel (1906), Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415), and Albert II of Germany (1397). After him are Anna Freud (1895), Maximilian I of Mexico (1832), Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), Klara Hitler (1860), Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608), and Wolfgang Pauli (1900).
454 - 526
HPI: 80.27
Rank: 40
1905 - 1997
HPI: 80.15
Rank: 41
1557 - 1619
HPI: 80.10
Rank: 42
1906 - 1978
HPI: 80.04
Rank: 43
1415 - 1493
HPI: 79.80
Rank: 44
1397 - 1439
HPI: 79.63
Rank: 45
1942 - Present
HPI: 79.57
Rank: 46
1895 - 1982
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 47
1832 - 1867
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 48
1678 - 1711
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 49
1860 - 1907
HPI: 79.46
Rank: 50
1608 - 1657
HPI: 79.38
Rank: 51
1900 - 1958
HPI: 79.33
Rank: 52
Among writers born in Austria, Peter Handke ranks 3. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883) and Stefan Zweig (1881). After him are Robert Musil (1880), Peter Drucker (1909), Arthur Schnitzler (1862), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Sándor Márai (1900), Paula Hitler (1896), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), Georg Trakl (1887), and Gustav Meyrink (1868).
1883 - 1924
HPI: 90.26
Rank: 1
1881 - 1942
HPI: 84.77
Rank: 2
1942 - Present
HPI: 79.57
Rank: 3
1880 - 1942
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 4
1909 - 2005
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 5
1862 - 1931
HPI: 76.43
Rank: 6
1946 - Present
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 7
1900 - 1989
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 8
1896 - 1960
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 9
1874 - 1929
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 10
1887 - 1914
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 11
1868 - 1932
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 12