The Moravian Night was written by what man whose nomination in the 2006 Heinrich Heine Prize caused a scandal?
The Moravian Night The Moravian Night (German: Die morawische Nacht ) is a 2008 novel by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It tells the story of a retired writer who talks about a recent journey and the state of Europe in front of a small crowd on his houseboat, while anchored outside the village Porodin on the river Morava in Serbia.
Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (] ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans," Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Particularly due to his early association with and philosophical influence on Hegel and Schelling, he was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism.