Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek

(1946) novelist Austria

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Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) was a Austria novelist, known for The Children of the Dead|The Piano Teacher|Women as Lovers|Wonderful, Wonderful Times.

About Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek 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 subjugating power". She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language.

Known for:

The Children of the Dead|The Piano Teacher|Women as Lovers|Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Notable works:

Die Klavierspielerin

Awards:

Nestroy theater award/lifetime achievement|Peter-Weiss Prize|Roswitha Prize|Georg Büchner Prize|Stig Dagerman Prize|Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres|Walter-Hasenclever-Preis der Stadt Aachen|Grand Cross of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria|honorary citizen of Vienna|Franz Kafka Prize|Nobel Prize in Literature|Literaturpreis des Landes Steiermark|Österreichischer Kunstpreis für Literatur|Heinrich-Böll-Preis|Heinrich Heine Prize|Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen|manuskripte award|Ring of Honour of the Austrian state Styria|City of Vienna Literature Prize|Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis|Q1978511

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