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. -Elfriede Jelinek

 

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.


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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.

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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.

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