Op-Ed Oct 18, 2019 Why was a Nobel Prize awarded to a man who celebrated a war criminal? When the Nobel Committee asked the public on Twitter if they had read the works of the Austrian writer Peter Handke, one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature, a Bosnian man, Emir Suljagic, answered back: “No, we were busy looking for our families and friends buried in mass graves which he denied existed.”