According to the radio, the protesters demand that the Swedish Academy withdraw Peter Handke's prize. Kosovo's Academy of Science and Arts has also made similar demands, according to Kulturnytt.

The decision to award the Handke Nobel Prize in literature is seen by many as controversial. The author has previously expressed his support for the war criminal Serbian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, and he spoke at his funeral in 2006.

The US Pen has said they are "stunned" at the decision to give the award to someone who used their voice to "undermine the historical truth and offer public assistance to the perpetrators of genocide", and Kosovo's former foreign minister has called the author a "genocide liar" .

Harsh criticism

The Kosovo Academy of Science and Arts has sent a letter to the academy protesting the decision, something that Srebrenica's mothers, the relatives of the victims of the Srebrenica massacre, did last week.

At the same time, after the award, Handke has been praised in state Serbian television, and himself calls the Handke Swedish Academy's decision "courageous".

The Swedish Academy maintains that there is a difference between literature and politics.

"This is a literary prize, it is not a political prize," said Nobel Committee Chairman Anders Olsson in connection with the announcement, according to Dagens Nyheter.