The Austrian novelist, playwright, and feminist is known for such works as "Women as Lovers" and "Wonderful, Wonderful Times." Jelinek, who grew up in Vienna with a Romanian-German mother and a Czech-Jewish father, lost several dozen members of her family to the Holocaust. When they honored Jelinek in 2004, the Nobel committee singled her out for "her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power."
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