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Elfriede Jelinek

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Jelinek, Elfriede
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Date of birth
1946-10-20
Place of birth
Mürzzuschlag

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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, 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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Austrian playwright and novelist.

Last modified: 2023-03-26 (revision #130956)

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