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# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:50:10.091Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Elfriede Jelinek was born on 20 October 1946 in Austria, and she built a career dismantling the inherited phrases of German-speaking culture. Her novels and plays trace the way social scripts—about gender, authority, desire—become instruments of control, and she does it through a prose style the Nobel Prize judges in 2004 described as possessing "extraordinary linguistic zeal" that reveals "the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". The prize made official what the theater world already knew: she is among the most important living playwrights writing in German. She remains one of the most decorated authors in the language, though her work offers no easy reconciliation—only the stark mechanics of how power speaks.