name: Elfriede Jelinek
birth_date: 1946-10-20 00:00:00
genres: Drama, Literature & Fiction
influences: Paul C, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Marlen Haushofer, Franz Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Ingeborg Bachmann
avg_rating: 3.59
ratings_count: 24668
about: Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist, best known for her novel, The Piano Teacher.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." Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist, best known for her novel, The Piano Teacher.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." ...more