Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek · Arts & Literature
Nobel Prize-winning Austrian novelist and playwright ('The Piano Teacher')
1946, Mürzzuschlag, Austria
Austria (Vienna) · Germany (Munich)
Elfriede Jelinek is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Nobel Prize-winning Austrian novelist and playwright ('The Piano Teacher')
Jelinek's father was a Czech Jewish chemist, many of whose relatives were murdered in the Holocaust, and the weight of Austria's Nazi past runs through her fiercely critical writing. In novels and plays she uses a distinctive musical, incantatory language to expose the violence, misogyny and hypocrisy beneath everyday social order, most famously in 'The Piano Teacher.' In 2004 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for this uncompromising body of work.
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Nobel Prize-winning Austrian novelist and playwright ('The Piano Teacher')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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