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Literary evening dedicated to Peter Handke, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, took place at the  Pygméteatern in Stockholm, on the 4th of November 2019. The event was organized by Jelena Mila, founder of Stockholm's "New Balkan Film Festival - BaNeFF". Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in the Kingdom of Sweden has also supported and cooperated in realization of this project.
During this literary gathering called "Poem to Duration", Jelena Mila, who is also a dramatic artist, read fragments from Handke's works in Serbian and Swedish languages, accompanied by concert soloist Ljubica Sekulic (Bach's compositions for viola).
After this literary evening attended mostly by representatives of the Serbian diaspora in Sweden, as well as representatives of the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Stockholm, there was also a screening of the 1987 movie "The Sky Above Berlin" directed by Wim Wenders, with the screenplay written partially by Peter Handke.