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Biography
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature 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". She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language.
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Awards & recognition
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres · 2024
- Grand Cross of Honor — Services to the Republic of Austria · 2024
- honorary citizen of Vienna · 2023
- Ring of Honour of the Austrian state Styria · 2023
- Nestroy theater award/lifetime achievement · 2021
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- Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis · 2011
- Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis · 2009
- Franz Kafka Prize · 2004
- Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis · 2004
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 2004
- Stig Dagerman Prize · 2004
- Heinrich Heine Prize · 2002
- Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis · 2002
- manuskripte award · 2000
- Georg Büchner Prize · 1998
- Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen · 1996
- Peter-Weiss Prize · 1994
- Walter-Hasenclever-Preis der Stadt Aachen · 1994
- City of Vienna Literature Prize · 1989
- Literaturpreis des Landes Steiermark · 1987
- Heinrich-Böll-Preis · 1986
- Österreichischer Kunstpreis für Literatur · 1983
- Roswitha Prize · 1978
