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  1. Books by Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek Average rating 3.58 · 22,325 ratings · 2,493 reviews · shelved 73,320 times Showing 30 distinct works.

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  2. First published in 1983, The Piano Teacher is the masterpiece of Elfriede Jelinek, Austria’s most famous writer. Now a feature film directed by Michael Haneke, The Piano Teacher won three major prizes at the Cannes 2001 Festival including best actor for Beno t Magimel and best actress for Isabelle Huppert.

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  4. Jul 19, 2007 · How To Read Elfriede Jelinek. In her avowedly autobiographical novel The Piano Teacher, the Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek has her alter ego Erika Kohut engage in a variety of voyeuristic activities. She pays to sit in a booth at a peep show, smells a tissue into which the man before her has masturbated, and watches attentively as the girls ...

  5. Elfriede Jelinek was born in 1946 in Mürzzuschalg in Styria. She studied music at the Vienna Conservatory and then studied drama and art history at the University of Vienna. There was considerable tension between her parents, and her father was interned in a mental institution. Jelinek herself then suffered a mental breakdown when she was ...

  6. The Children of the Dead. First edition. The Children of the Dead ( German: Die Kinder der Toten) is a novel by Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1995 by Rowohlt Verlag. It is commonly regarded as her magnum opus. [1] The novel won the Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen in 1996. The prologue and epilogue were translated into English by Louise E ...

  7. Elfriede Jelinek was born in 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria, and grew up in Vienna, where she studied music and, later, theatre and art history. Alongside, she began writing poetry and established herself as a leading, if controversial, member of postwar Austria’s first generation of artists who struggled to come to terms with the legacy of the Holocaust.

  8. Apr 26, 2024 · Elfriede Jelinek (born October 20, 1946, Mürzzuschlag, Austria) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet noted for her controversial works on gender relations, female sexuality, and popular culture. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. Jelinek received her education in Vienna, where the combination of her academic ...

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