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.
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- Born in
- Mürzzuschlag
- Educated at
- University of ViennaMusic and Arts University of the City of Vienna
- Awards
- 🏆 Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen🏆 manuskripte award🏆 Ring of Honour of the Austrian state Styria🏆 City of Vienna Literature Prize🏆 Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis
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1946
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