On Tuesday night, Nobel laureate Peter Handke visited his home town and was met by a number of journalists who began to question his position on the Yugoslav wars.
- I stand in front of my garden gate and there are 50 journalists who all ask the same questions. Not from anyone did I hear that they said they read anything about me. There was only one question: How does the world react? Reactions, reactions reactions. I am a writer, like Tolstoy, Homer, Cervantes, so leave me alone and do not ask such questions, said Handke, writes Dagens Nyheter with reference to the Austrian local radio ORF Carinthia.
Handke should also have said that he will never answer questions from journalists again.