Elfriede Jelinek Quotes


It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.


Citations

Jelinek, Elfriede. Interview by Gabi Waldner. NobelPrize.org, The Nobel Foundation, 2004.

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Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek
  • Born: October 20, 1946
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Profession: Playwright, Novelist

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors writing in German today and 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". Next to Peter Handke and Botho Strauss she is considered to be the most important living playwright of the German language.