“We are dumbfounded by the selection of a writer who has used his public voice to undercut historical truth and offer public succor to perpetrators of genocide” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2019 (New York)– PEN America issued the following statement from author and PEN America President Jennifer Egan, in response to the choice of … Continue reading Statement: Deep Regret Over the Choice of Peter Handke for the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature