Elfriede Jelinek
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"Elfriede Jelinek" is an Austrian playwright and novelist. 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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When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.

Depicting it as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel, 'Die Kinder der Toten.'

After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy.

Was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.

It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those who came before Elfriede Jelinek and those who came after her.