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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 ...
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.
The authorship of Elfriede Jelinek includes drama and poetry as well as prose. Among her most famous works we find the novels The Piano Teacher and Lust, both of which are characterized by a satirical sharpness, an experimental urge and an uncompromising outspokenness.
16 Jun 2005 · With her fellow-countrymen Karl Kraus and Thomas Bernhard as satirical and polemical models, Jelinek is a peculiarly inconvenient and sharp critic of Austrian society and its Catholic and authoritarian background. Jelinek perceives herself as a combatant feminist with clear left-wing sympathies.
Elfriede Jelinek: Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face – for me that would be deserving of an award. Translation by Allison Brown. Interview, October 2004.
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.
Elfriede Jelinek, (born October 20, 1946, Mürzzuschlag, Austria), Austrian novelist and playwright noted for her controversial works on gender relations, female sexuality, and popular culture. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.
