Elfriede Jelinek

1946 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: Austria

native language: German

languages spoken, written or signed: German

educated at: Pamer, Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna

occupation: writer, playwright, screenwriter, poet, translator, novelist, librettist, literary critic

award received: Nobel Prize in Literature, Georg Büchner Prize, Walter-Hasenclever-Preis der Stadt Aachen, manuskripte award, Franz Kafka Prize, Heinrich-Böll-Preis, Stig Dagerman Prize, Literaturpreis des Landes Steiermark, Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis, Roswitha Prize, Peter-Weiss Prize, Österreichischer Kunstpreis für Literatur, City of Vienna Literature Prize, Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen, Heinrich Heine Prize, Nestroy-Theaterpreis/Bestes Stück – Autorenpreis, Nestroy theater award/lifetime achievement

official website: www.elfriedejelinek.com

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". Along with Peter Handke and Botho Strauss, she is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language. Source: Wikipedia (en)