Elfriede Jelinek
Born
in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria
October 20, 1946
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The Piano Teacher
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164 editions
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1983
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Les amantes
63 editions
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published
1975
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Lust
62 editions
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published
1989
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Wonderful, Wonderful Times
53 editions
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published
1980
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Greed
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37 editions
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published
2000
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The Children of the Dead
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18 editions
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published
1995
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Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V
13 editions
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published
2004
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Winterreise
12 editions
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published
2011
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Michael. Ein Jugendbuch für die Infantilgesellschaft.
8 editions
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1972
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Persoonsgegevens
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7 editions
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2022
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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.”
― The Piano Teacher
― The Piano Teacher
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Frans Emil Sillanpää (1939)
Johannes V. Jensen (1944)
Gabriela Mistral (1945)
William Faulkner (1949)
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Ivo Andrić (1961)
George Seferis (1963)
Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)
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Eugene O'Neill (1936)
Pearl S. Buck (1938)
André Gide (1947)
Pär Lagerkvist (1951)
François Mauriac (1952)
Saint-John Perse (1960)
Mikhail Sholokhov (And Quiet Flows the Don) (1965)
S.Y. Agnon (1966)
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