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10.12.2019. - 18:33
Congratulation to the Austrian writer Peter Handke
The President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić congratulated the Austrian writer Peter Handke on the occasion of ceremonial awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature, stating:
"Dear friend,
please receive my most sincere congratulations. As a Nobel Prize laureate, you are inscribed among the immortals. This award is an award for your outstanding literary work, for your knowledge and creativity, but also for your unrivalled moral qualities, for courage and dignity to fight for your ideals of a prominent intellectual.
Serbia regards you as a true friend and I will avail myself to the opportunity to say that we perceive your Nobel Prize as having been won by one of us. Now, along with Ivo Andrić, we are celebrating yet another of our Nobel Prize winners.
I am looking forward, dear friend, to your soon visit to Serbia", reads the congratulation of President Vučić.
Athens, 10th December 2019