Peter Handke, Nobel Prize in Literature 2019: Official interview

Interview with the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Literature Peter Handke, 9 December 2019.

00:00 - How does your writing process begin?
01:08 - What do you need in order to be creative?
02:49 - How do you deal with failure or writer’s block?
04:34 - How would you describe yourself as a writer?
05:07 - Did you agree with the initial assessment of your work as avant-garde?
06:43 - Has music influenced your literary work?
07:36 - What is it about language that you find so fascinating?
08:14 - What role does literature have in society?
09:38 - Which writers have most influenced your writing style?
11:38 - How do you see the interplay between filmmaking, art and writing?
13:43 - Tell us about your collaboration with Wim Wenders on ‘Wings of Desire’.
15:11 - What advice would you give to an aspiring writer?
15:23 - A reading from ‘Die Wiederholung’ (’Repetition’) by Peter Handke