The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
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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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