Austrian Novelist Claims Nobel Prize

Posted on October 8, 2004

Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek, author of The Piano Teacher and Lust has won the Nobel prize for literature reports the Boston Globe. The Globe says her most recent play called Bambiland (2003) is a "withering attack on the US invasion of Iraq." Jelinek is the tenth women to win the Nobel Prize for literature which includes a $1.3 million cash prize. The Nobel Foundation gave her the Prize for "her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clich�s and their subjugating power."

Source: Boston Globe, Nobel Foundation