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Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 20th October, 1946 |
| Nationality: | Austrian |
| Profession: | Novelist, Playwright |
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Elfriede Jelinek was born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria. She 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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