Elfriede Jelinek

Novelist, Author

1946 –

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Who is Elfriede Jelinek?

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 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."

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Born
Oct 20, 1946
Mürzzuschlag
Parents
Spouses
Religion
  • Judaism
Ethnicity
  • Austrians
Nationality
  • Austria
Profession
Education
  • University of Vienna
Lived in
  • Styria

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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