Profile: Elfriede Jelinek [Austria]
Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Austrian Known for Her Writings on Sexuality and Aggression:
The Nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as everything from a genius to Beelzebub in her native Austria.
One of the most famous women writing in German she was most controversially quoted in 1980 as saying "Austria is a criminal nation", referring to her country's participation in the crimes of the Third Reich. [...]
Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Austrian Known for Her Writings on Sexuality and Aggression:
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2004 was awarded this morning to Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian novelist, poet, playwright, and translator. [...]
In its award citation, the Swedish Royal Academy noted that Ms. Jelinek's work analyzes "the cold-blooded practice of male power," making a "fundamental criticism of civilization by describing sexual violence against women as the actual template for our culture." There may be an element of self-criticism in the academy's decision, for Ms. Jelinek is only the 10th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature since the award was first presented, in 1901. [...]
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