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"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."

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About Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet known for formally experimental and socially critical writing. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.

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