| Elfriede Jelinek: Contemporary Literature's 'Cassandra' |
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by Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger Elfriede Jelinek (*1946) will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature on December 10, 2004 and become the tenth woman writer to be recognized by the Nobel Prize committee as one of the most significant literary voices of her time. She won the award "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power." Critics may argue that the selection of Jelinek as Nobel Laureate is politically motivated, but a read through her works can convince readers otherwise.
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