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.
Peter Tegel Peter Tegel is a British translator of Czech-German descent. As a boy, he fled with his family from the Nazi occupation of Sudetenland, arriving in Britain where he studied at Balliol College, Oxford. He has translated works of German, French and Russian literature. In particular he is noted for his translations of the German writer Uwe Timm. These include the titles "Midsummer Night", "Headhunter", and "The Snake Tree", the last of which won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize. Tegel has also translated the plays of Bertolt Brecht.