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    Elfriede Jelinek

    Austrian playwright and novelist

    Elfriede Jelinek (German:[ɛlˈfʁiːdəˈjɛlinɛk]; 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".[1] She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language.[2]

    Biography

    Elfriede Jelinek was born on 20 October 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, the daughter of Olga Ilona (née Buchner), a personnel director, and Friedrich Jelinek.[3] She was raised in Vienna by her Romanian-German Catholic mother and a non-observantCzech Jewish father (whose surname Jelinek means "little deer" in Czech).[3][4][5] Her mother's family came fr