war crimes, caused controversy after Handke spoke at his funeral. Because of this the administrator of the theater Comédie-Française, Marcel Bozonnet, removed Handke's play "Voyage au pays sonore ou L'art de la question" from the forthcoming 2007 schedule. This event once again drew both supportive and critical voices. Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, the French minister of culture, implicitly criticized Bozonnet's action in a letter addressed to him, and by deciding to invite Handke to the ministry. A petition against the censorship of his work was signed by Emir Kusturica, Patrick Modiano (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014), Paul Nizon, Bulle Ogier, Luc Bondy and Handke’s compatriot Elfriede Jelinek (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004). Handke was subsequently selected to receive that year’s Heinrich Heine Prize, though he refused it before it was to be revoked from him. In 2013, Tomislav Nikolić, as the then President of Serbia, expressed gratitude saying that some people still remember those who suffered for Christianity, implying that Handke was a victim of scorn for his views, to which Handke replied with explanation, "I was not anyone's victim, the Serbian people is victim." This was said during the ceremony at which Handke received the Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Serbia. In 2014, Handke called for the Nobel Prize in Literature to be abolished and dubbed it a "circus". In February 2020, Sima Avramović, the president of the commission for decorations of the Republic of Serbia, explained that Handke, for "special merits in representing Serbia and its citizens" as he "wholeheartedly defended the Serbian truth", is being decorated with the Order of the Star of Karadjordje. The current President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, presented recipients on the occasion of the Serbian Statehood Day. Reactions to the Nobel Prize Awards 1973: Georg Büchner Prize 1987: Vilenica International Literary Prize 2000: 2002: America Award 2002: Honorary Doctor, University of Klagenfurt 2003: Honorary Doctor, University of Salzburg 2008: Thomas-Mann-Preis 2009: Franz Kafka Prize 2012: Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis 2014: International Ibsen Award 2018: Nestroy Theatre Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2019: Nobel Prize in Literature 2020: Order of Karađorđe's Star 2021: Order of the Republika Srpska Works Handke has written novels, plays, screenplays, essays and poems, often published by Suhrkamp. Many works were translated to English. His works are held by the German National Library, including: 1966 (The Hornets), novel 1966 Publikumsbeschimpfung und andere