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If you& #39;re just tuning into the scandal over the Swedish Academy selecting Peter Handke for the Nobel Prize in Literature, here& #39;s a thread of my stories and tweets on the controversy (which still shocks me).
I found out last month that two Nobel Prize jurors, in their deliberations, fell for a debunked conspiracy theory that falsely backs up Handke& #39;s discredited views on the Serb genocide of Bosnia& #39;s Muslims. https://theintercept.com/2019/11/14/peter-handke-nobel-prize-bosnian-genocide-conspiracy/">https://theintercept.com/2019/11/1...
I also found out that during a 1998 visit to Bosnia, Handke stayed in a hotel, the Vilina Vlas in Visegrad, that had been used as a rape camp by Serbs during the war. It seems likely that Handke knew of the hotel& #39;s history. https://theintercept.com/2019/11/28/peter-handke-nobel-prize-bosnia-rape-hotel/">https://theintercept.com/2019/11/2...
If you want to know more about the crimes committed at the Vilina Vlas, please read this thread by @hikmet_karcic. https://twitter.com/hikmet_karcic/status/1200053752226598915">https://twitter.com/hikmet_ka...
Handke delivered a eulogy at the 2006 funeral of Slobodan Milosevic, who oversaw the genocide in Bosnia. Though Handke has claimed he wasn& #39;t allied with Milosevic, I found out that he secretly had a passport from the Serbian leader& #39;s regime. https://theintercept.com/2019/11/06/nobel-prize-literature-peter-handke-yugoslavia-passport/">https://theintercept.com/2019/11/0...
Here& #39;s a thread I wrote about the passport, with some details about it and how I found it and verified it -- https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1192202067131224067">https://twitter.com/maassp/st...
For a close reading of Handke& #39;s appalling version of what happened in Bosnia, here& #39;s a thread I wrote about one of his books, "A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia." https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1183847059696304133">https://twitter.com/maassp/st...
It& #39;s important to understand Handke& #39;s strategy of creating doubt without evidence. He uses a sophisticated form of genocide denialism, raising questions about proven crimes, trying to manufacture doubt where there are no grounds for it. Here& #39;s my story -- https://theintercept.com/2019/10/26/nobel-prize-literature-peter-handke-genocide/">https://theintercept.com/2019/10/2...
The Swedish Academy has conducted a deceptive and offensive campaign to stifle the well-founded criticism of its selection of Peter Handke for the literature Nobel. Here& #39;s my thread on three of the letters it sent to groups in Bosnia and Kosovo. https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1197950765106630657">https://twitter.com/maassp/st...
Peter Handke& #39;s publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag, is part of the campaign to defend his indefensible work. Here& #39;s the story I wrote about the deceptions in Suhrkamp& #39;s 24-page defense of Handke. https://theintercept.com/2019/11/09/peter-handke-won-the-nobel-prize-then-his-publisher-quietly-circulated-a-strange-defense-of-his-genocide-denialism/">https://theintercept.com/2019/11/0...
The Swedish Academy has endorsed Suhrkamp& #39;s shoddy document. Here& #39;s a thread I wrote about a letter the Academy wrote that approvingly cited the Suhrkamp document. https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1198716690382635010">https://twitter.com/maassp/st...
One of the Swedish Academy& #39;s key failures is that it did not consult the victims of genocide about whom Handke was (falsely) writing. Here& #39;s a thread I wrote about the voices that were ignored — and that we should all listen to. https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1196520628809015297">https://twitter.com/maassp/st...
Here are some of the voices from ex-Yugo that I& #39;ve relied on: @_edinh @SashaHemon @jagodamarinic @sasa_s @Petrit @Skosevic @alida_bremer @StoTeNema @hikmet_karcic @HarisAlisic @HarisPasovic @jasenkos @hjasminko @suljagicemir1 @ervinmalakaj @JasminMuj @ReufBajrovic @abithoxha
One of the elements I haven& #39;t written enough about -- the core element, really -- is the importance of the Swedish Academy& #39;s anti-Muslim bias. In this short thread, I note how it operates in a way that& #39;s not explicit. But it& #39;s central. https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1197978586478731265">https://twitter.com/maassp/st...
I think @SashaHemon& #39;s comment on that thread is key -- https://twitter.com/SashaHemon/status/1197983927975190532">https://twitter.com/SashaHemo...
And here& #39;s the story I wrote about the Swedish Academy, confronted with profound criticism of its choice of Handke for the Nobel, decided to plunge itself even deeper into the abyss of genocide denialism. https://theintercept.com/2019/11/20/peter-handke-nobel-prize-bosnian-genocide/">https://theintercept.com/2019/11/2...
If you want to figure out who& #39;s a real genocide denier, check with the real genocide deniers. Here& #39;s my thread on the ultranationalist Serbs who are thrilled with Peter Handke& #39;s Nobel Prize. https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1201919133505531906">https://twitter.com/maassp/st...
The @NobelPrize organization and the Swedish Academy are dodging, in a frankly cowardly way, vital questions they hope to never answer. The following thread, written from Stockholm, is an example of genocide denial via intercom. https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1202713962917322753">https://twitter.com/maassp/st...
Just adding to this thread, a bit tardily, the story I wrote on Friday about asking Peter Handke, at a press conference, about the genocide in Bosnia. He said my question was "empty and ignorant," and compared it to a "calligraphy of shit." https://theintercept.com/2019/12/06/peter-handke-nobel-prize-genocide-questions/">https://theintercept.com/2019/12/0...
The day after the press conference, Handke and Olga Tokarczuk (the 2018 winner) delivered their Nobel lectures on Saturday at the Swedish Academy. No media were allowed to attend. Here& #39;s my short thread about that. https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1203343121012142080">https://twitter.com/maassp/st...
A point often overlooked -- how radical Serb nationalists of the 1990s are connected to, and are inspirations for, contemporary white nationalist violence. Here& #39;s a thread I wrote on that. https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1203775029596561408">https://twitter.com/maassp/st...
To finish this thread of threads on the Handke scandal, here& #39;s the story I wrote on Dec. 10, 2019 about the disgraceful ceremony at which the King of Sweden officially gave Peter Handke the Nobel Prize for Literature. https://theintercept.com/2019/12/10/the-king-of-sweden-gives-peter-handke-a-disgraceful-nobel-prize/">https://theintercept.com/2019/12/1...
