Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek

About Elfriede Jelinek:

Elfriede Jelinek 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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I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

Elfriede Jelinek

Author Bio

  • NameElfriede Jelinek
  • DescriptionAustrian writer
  • BornOctober 20, 1946
  • CountryAustria
  • ProfessionWriter; Playwright; Screenwriter; Poet; Translator; Novelist
  • WorksThe Piano Teacher; Women As Lovers; The Children Of The Dead
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Georg Büchner Prize; Walter-Hasenclever-Preis Der Stadt Aachen; ; Franz Kafka Prize; Heinrich-Böll-Preis; Stig Dagerman Prize