Elfriede Jelinek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian writer

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1946

Place of Birth: Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, playwright, translator, author, literary critic, novelist, librettist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Elfriede Jelinek (German: [?l'f?i?d? 'j?lin?k]; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist.
She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 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".