Elfriede Jelinek

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".

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"As president of the Nobel Committee for Literature, I have seen how recent laureates -- Elfriede Jelinek, Imre Kertesz, JMG Le Clezio, Herta Muller -- were virtually unknown and unprinted in England and U.S. and only after the Nobel Prize were they able to find readers in English, yet they are in my view equal to anyone writing in English," said Per Wastberg, President of the Nobel Committee for Literature.

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(The choice of Elfriede Jelinek for this past fall's Nobel Prize for Literature was faulted too, not for her uninflected pessimism or the threads of caustic misanthropy that weave through her work, and which in fact group her with many other recent winners, but for her insufficient fame outside Vienna, which does not.)

Mother Tongue 2009

The Piano Teacher is based on the novel by Elfriede Jelinek and is… quite disturbing.

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The French novelist Le Clézio won last year; the English-language novelist Doris Lessing in 2007; Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk in 2006; the British playwright Harold Pinter in 2005; and Elfriede Jelinek, the Austrian playwright and novelist, one of the most undeserving winners in the history of the prize, in 2004.

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Werner Schroeter, for example, directed her three times, and for her role in Malina (1991), he introduced her to the writer Elfriede Jelinek, who adaptated her own text for the screen.

Isabelle Huppert. 2009

The French novelist Le Clézio won last year; the English-language novelist Doris Lessing in 2007; Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk in 2006; the British playwright Harold Pinter in 2005; and Elfriede Jelinek, the Austrian playwright and novelist, one of the most undeserving winners in the history of the prize, in 2004.

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And in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek became the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Isabelle Huppert. 2009

How else to account for the awarding of the prize to such second- and third-rate writers as Pinter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Toni Morrison?

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Someone like Elfriede Jelinek is a more problematic case, someone whose work I sampled and found interesting, but I'm wary of the difficulties and inadequacies of the translation of her work into English.

Nobel Thoughts 2008