Elfriede who?
The Guardian Unlimited site has an excellent synopsis of the career of Elfriede Jelinek, the Austrian novelist, poet, and playwright who last night became the 10th woman in history to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy, which awards the annual prize of 10-million Swedish kronor, praised Jelinek for her “musical flow of voices and counter-voices in her novels and plays,” and her “extraordinary linguistic zeal, which reveals the absurdity of society’s cliches and their subjugating power.” Jelinek is perhaps best known outside of her native country for her autobiographical novel The Piano Teacher, which was made into a film that won the 2001 Cannes Grand Jury Prize.
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