The backlash against Peter Handke, the Austrian author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this year, is continuing in a dramatic fashion, with the writer being declared persona non grata in the city of Sarajevo and the nation of Kosovo.

This week, both the Bosnian capital and the European country have proclaimed the novelist unwelcome, the Associated Press reports.

Handke has drawn sustained criticism for his statements defending Slobodan Milošević, the Serbian president who died while being tried for war crimes. He also has denied that the Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered, actually happened.

In a tweet, Behgjet Pacolli, the deputy prime minister of Kosovo, announced that the country was barring Handke from visiting:

Officials in Sarajevo also barred Handke from entering the city, with lawmakers saying, “The handing of the Nobel Prize to such a person is an insult of the victims and his visit to Bosnia and Sarajevo would be additional humiliation of the victims of the Serbian aggression.”

Handke seems unlikely to react well to the news. At a press conference last week, the author became combative with reporters, refusing to answer questions about his comments about Milošević and his denial of the Srebrenica massacre.

Michael Schaub is an Austin, Texas–based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.