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Elfriede Jelinek. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004. Born: 20 October 1946, Mürzzuschlag, Austria. Residence at the time of the award: Austria. Prize motivation: “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 subjugating ...
Jelinek is a highly controversial figure in her homeland. Her writing builds on a lengthy Austrian tradition of linguistically sophisticated social criticism, with precursors such as Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Karl Kraus, Ödön von Horváth, Elias Canetti, Thomas Bernhard and the Wiener Group. The nature of Jelinek’s texts is often hard to define.
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The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) "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 subjugating power". [1] She is the tenth female and the first Austrian Nobel ...
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.
Oct 7, 2004 · Oct. 7, 2004. PARIS, Oct. 7 Â Elfriede Jelinek, a reclusive Austrian novelist and playwright who is well known in the German-speaking world for works that denounce sexual violence as well as ...
Oct 8, 2004 · Elfriede Jelinek, an intensely shy, quirky Austrian writer whose highly political works infused with feminism both unsettle and enthrall her readers, has won the Nobel Prize in literature, the ...
Oct 7, 2004 · Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, becoming only the tenth woman to receive the honor. The feminist author is best known for her ...
