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Elfriede Jelinek

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Austrian playwright and novelist

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Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian writer known for her work in both plays and novels. Her writing is significant in contemporary literature for its distinctive voice and exploration of complex themes through these dramatic and literary forms.

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Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. Jelinek's output has included radio plays, poetry, theatre texts, polemical essays, anthologies, novels, translations, screenplays, musical compositions, libretti and ballets, film and video art. She has also appeared in a couple of feature films. She is probably best known for her…

Known for

  • Elfriede Jelinek: Language Unleashed — Self2022
  • Chance 2000 - Abschied von Deutschland — Self2017
  • Valie Export - Icon and Rebel — Reader2015
  • Valie Export - Icon and Rebel2015
  • Elfriede & Elfriede2004
  • Elfriede Jelinek: Nobel Prize Lecture2004
  • Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container2002
  • NeXt — Self1994
  • Lust1988
  • What the Night Speaks – a Story1987

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Literature2004

    “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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Official website

Elfriede Jelinek

Website von Elfriede Jelinek, Texte zum Theater, Texte zur Kunst, Bilder aus Theaterinszenierungen, Interviews, Werkverzeichnis, biographische Informationen

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Elfriede
Gender
female
Citizenship
Austria
Place of birth
Vienna
Occupation
literary critic
Educated at
University of Vienna
Political party
Communist Party of Austria
Languages spoken
German
Native language
German
Field of work
poetry
Instrument
recorder
Official website
www.elfriedejelinek.com
Image
Elfriede jelinek 2004 small.jpg
Work location
Vienna
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member of
German Academy for Language and Literature
Commons category
Elfriede Jelinek
date of birth
1946-10-20
name in native language
Elfriede Jelineková
start of work period
1987-00-00
writing language
German
influenced by
Roland Barthes
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Encyclopedic overview

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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