Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian playwright and novelist
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Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) 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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Elfriede Jelinek was born on Sunday, 20 October 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria. She is best known as a novelist. Jelinek's country of citizenship (nationality) is Austrian. She has blue eyes and auburn hair (color). Elfriede Jelinek is 78 years old and her zodiac star sign is Libra.

You can find people similar to Elfriede Jelinek by visiting our lists Jewish Austrian writers and 20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights.

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The system that judges the worth of women, the system that judges a woman's worth through her youthful body and looks and not for what she does.

Elfriede Jelinek is known for her role in the documentary Elfriede Jelinek - die Sprache von der Leine lassen (2022) as very special thanks.

She is also known for her role in the TV movie Die Ausgesperrten (1982) as Anna's Teacher.

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