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Elfriede Jelinek

1946 - Today

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Elfriede Jelinek (German: [ɛlˈfʁiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born 20 October 1946) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elfriede Jelinek is the 274th most popular writer (up from 301st in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Austria (down from 73rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Writer.

Elfriede Jelinek is most famous for her novel "The Piano Teacher" which is about a woman who is a piano teacher and who has a sexual obsession with her students.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elfriede Jelinek ranks 274 out of 7,302. Before her are Sallust, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Snorri Sturluson, Jami, Arthur C. Clarke, and Quintilian. After her are Peter Handke, Gao Xingjian, Pär Lagerkvist, Anna Komnene, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Among people born in 1946, Elfriede Jelinek ranks 26. Before her are Bon Scott, Candice Bergen, Gianni Versace, Roh Moo-hyun, Diane Keaton, and Charlotte Rampling. After her are Fabio Capello, Mireille Mathieu, Benny Andersson, Jane Birkin, Tommy Lee Jones, and David Gilmour.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Elfriede Jelinek ranks 77 out of 1,424. Before her are Martin Buber (1878), Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), Kurt Waldheim (1918), Anna Freud (1895), Fritz Pregl (1869), and Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888). After her are Peter Handke (1942), Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906), Alban Berg (1885), Fritz Lang (1890), Albert II of Germany (1397), and Mariana of Austria (1634).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Elfriede Jelinek ranks 3. Before her are Stefan Zweig (1881), and Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888). After her are Peter Handke (1942), Robert Musil (1880), Peter Drucker (1909), Arthur Schnitzler (1862), Paula Hitler (1896), Georg Trakl (1887), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), Klaus Ebner (1964), and Walther von der Vogelweide (1170).

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