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Elfriede Jelinek
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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
— P 5
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian playwright and novelist
- Fame72.2
- Momentum1.0
- Austria rank#22
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- Fame72.2
- Momentum1.0
- Austria rank#22
- Writers rank#222
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Born 1946 · age 80Austria
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Updated 2026-06-21
She dissects language itself as ideology, peeling back the clichés that organize power and submission. The Nobel committee called it a "musical flow of voices and counter-voices"—but her plays and novels don't comfort; they expose how we talk ourselves into compliance.
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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 remain…
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Elfriede Jelinek
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Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
— P 23
Elfriede Jelinek
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Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.
— P 24
Elfriede Jelinek
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The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.
— P 24
Elfriede Jelinek
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Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.
— P 27
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