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Symptom gesellschaftlicher Krisen: literarische Gewaltdarstellungen in Elfriede Jelineks "Die Ausgesperrten" und in ausgewählten
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No Austrian author has excited as much hatred as Elfriede Jelinek, but nor has any other received such a euphoric reception.
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Still, awarding him the prize would have been preferable to the 2004 choice of the Austrian misanthrope Elfriede Jelinek, a novelist incapable of creating a credible character or of writing a single shapely sentence.
A Rare Swedish Triumph Eric Ormsby 2010
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In an article published in Le Monde dated Monday-Sunday, many people [including] first secretary of the Socialist [party] Martine Aubry, the Communist Marie-George Buffet, Green Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the Nobel Prize [winners] Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (medicine) and Elfriede Jelinek (literature), have requested WHO “to no longer consider transsexuals as mentally disordered.”
Transsexuality will no longer be classified in France as a mental illness 2009
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Previously, political anger usually came from the other side, as the academy gave the gong in recent years to polemical left-wing writers such as Dario Fo, Harold Pinter and Elfriede Jelinek perfectly described by Christopher Hitchens, in these very pages, as a "mediocre Austrian Stalinist".
Poetry Defeats Politics Michael Moynihan 2011
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If you really want a disturbing portrayal of the way in which women are inculcated into a kind of reflexive sadomasochism, read Elfriede Jelinek, whose fiction truly transgresses modern myths about sex and romantic love without relying on the superficial adornments of the sociological "expose."
Social Fiction 2007
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The poems of Elfriede Jelinek published in the November issue of Poetry (translated by Michael Hofmann) are her first to appear in English.
2007 November : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Elfriede Jelinek, a German/Austrian writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, is putting her new novel online for free as she writes it, without DRM or restrictions.
Boing Boing 2007
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She fashioned a libretto with the Austrian novelist and winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize, Elfriede Jelinek.
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More likely, the pseudonym Kurban Said was registered to Elfriede because Nussimbaum couldn't publish, as a Jew, in Nazi Germany.
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