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Elfriede Jelinek


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in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria
October 20, 1946

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Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist, best known for her novel, The Piano Teacher.

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."
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Average rating: 3.59 · 24,980 ratings · 2,932 reviews · 160 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Piano Teacher

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3.60 avg rating — 14,788 ratings — published 1983 — 164 editions
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Les amantes

3.74 avg rating — 3,742 ratings — published 1975 — 63 editions
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Lust

3.31 avg rating — 1,927 ratings — published 1989 — 62 editions
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Wonderful, Wonderful Times

3.80 avg rating — 1,625 ratings — published 1980 — 53 editions
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Greed

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3.37 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 2000 — 37 editions
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The Children of the Dead

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Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V

3.54 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions
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Winterreise

3.48 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions
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Michael. Ein Jugendbuch für...

3.30 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1972 — 8 editions
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Persoonsgegevens

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3.54 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions
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“Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.”
Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher

“He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.”
Elfriede Jelinek, Wonderful, Wonderful Times

“Vice is basically the love of failure.”
Elfriede Jelinek, ʾԴDZæԲԱ

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