Elfriede Jelinek was born on October 20, 1946 in Murzzuschlag, Styria, Austria. She is an Austrian playwright and novelist.

Biography and Career :

After graduating Primary School, she followed the courses of the Conservatory in Viena. In 1967 she interrupted her studies because of some pshicological problems.

In 1974 she became a member of the Commits Party in Austria. She left the Party in 1991, being married to the composer Gottfried Hungsberg.

She wrote her first novel in 1968-"bubkolit", but she published it in 1797. Elfriede Jelinek's first great novel was "The Lovers" in 1975. She continued writing plays and novels. Her style was aggressive and non-conformist. Due to her controversy literature, Elfriede Jelinek is criticized by the audience, being in the center of the social and polemic debates.

In 2004, on October 7, Elfiede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for "the musical course of the registers in her novels and dramas that reveals by a unique verbal passion of her own way, the absurdity and the compulsion of the social clichees".

Quotes :

- "Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."

- "I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."

- "I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."

- "I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."

Works :

Novels :
- bukolit. horroman; Wien 1979
- wir sind lockvogel baby!; Reinbek 1970
- Michael. Ein Jugendbuch fur die Infantilgesellschaft; Reinbek 1972
- Die Liebhaberinnen; Reinbek 1975
- Die Ausgesperrten; Reinbek 1980
- Die Klavierspielerin; Reinbek 1983
- Oh Wildnis, oh Schutz vor ihr; Reinbek 1985
- Lust; Reinbek 1989
- Die Kinder der Toten; Reinbek 1997
- Gier; Reinbek 2000.

Plays :
- Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte; 1977
- Clara S.; 1981
- Burgtheater; 1983
- Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen; 1984
- Prasident Abendwind; 1987
- Wolken.Heim; 1988
- Totenauberg; 1991
- Raststatte; 1994
- Stecken, Stab und Stangl; 1996
- Ein Sportstuck; 1998
- er nicht als er; 1998
- In den Alpen
- Das Werk
- Prinzessinnendramen
- Bambiland; 2003
- Ulrike Maria Stuart; 2006.
_{Elfriede Jelinek Image : literaturkritik.de}

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Category: Writers  - ( Writers Archive)

Date Added: 19 February '07

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