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Elfriede Jelinek (German: [ɛlˈfʁiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist.She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their ...
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.
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With special fervour, Jelinek has castigated Austria, depicting it as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel, Die Kinder der Toten (1995). Jelinek is a highly controversial figure in her homeland.
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 ...
Mar 20, 2024 · March 20, 2024 at 12:50 p.m. EDT. (Yale University Press) 6 min. Originally published in 1995 in German, the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek’s “ The Children of the Dead ” is perhaps the...
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Jelinek's subsequent works were short dramas consisting of dense monologues. Der Tod und das Maedchen I–V (2003) depicts in five plays the death of the maiden in a male-dominated world. One of these plays, Jackie , was made into a radio play and received the highest recognition with the Blind War Veterans' Radio Theatre Prize.
G. Huengsberg. Recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian poet, playwright, and novelist. Born to a Catholic-Viennese mother and a Jewish-Czech father in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Jelinek grew up in Vienna and lost many members of her family to the Holocaust. Jelinek studied music intensively from an early age.
