born 1946 · Writing
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21honors
Honors
212024Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
2024Grand Cross of Honor — Services to the Republic of Austria
2023Ring of Honour of the Austrian state Styria
2023honorary citizen of Vienna
2021Nestroy Theatre Prize — Lifetime Achievement
Bio
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. Jelinek's output has included radio plays, poetry, theatre texts, polemical essays, anthologies, novels, translations, screenplays, musical compositions, libretti and ballets, film and video art. She has also appeared in a couple of feature films. She is probably best known for her novel "Die Klavierspielerin/The Piano Player" published 1983.
