
Elfriede Jelinek
b. 1946
Austrian playwright and novelist
- Born
- 20 Oct 1946 · Mürzzuschlag
Life timeline
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- 20 Oct 1946BornBorn in Mürzzuschlag
- 1978AwardRoswitha Prize
- 1983AwardÖsterreichischer Kunstpreis für Literatur
- 1986AwardHeinrich-Böll-Preis
- 1987AwardLiteraturpreis des Landes Steiermark
- 1989AwardCity of Vienna Literature Prize
- 1994AwardPeter-Weiss Prize
- 1994AwardWalter-Hasenclever-Preis der Stadt Aachen
- 1996AwardLiteraturpreis der Stadt Bremen
- 1998AwardGeorg Büchner Prize
- 2000AwardManuskripte award
- 2002AwardHeinrich Heine Prize
- 2002AwardMülheimer Dramatikerpreis
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Major world events during their lifetime (1946 – today).
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
- 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
- 19981998 FIFA World Cup
- 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
- 2003 – 2011Iraq War
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
- 20062006 FIFA World Cup
- 20082008 Summer Olympics
- 2008Russo-Georgian War
- 20102010 Haiti earthquake
- 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
- 20112011 Norway attacks
- 2011Libyan civil war
Biography
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.
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