Awards & Winners

Elfriede Jelinek

Date of Birth 20-October-1946
Place of Birth Mürzzuschlag
(Austria, Styria)
Nationality Austria
Profession Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Author, Screenwriter
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."

Awards by Elfriede Jelinek

Check all the awards nominated and won by Elfriede Jelinek.

2004


Franz Kafka Prize
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)