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Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian Nobel Prize-winning playwright and novelist known for her critical and linguistic innovation.

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Elfriede Jelinek is best known for Austrian playwright and novelist awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her innovative use of language to critique societal clichés. On Dead or Alive, Elfriede Jelinek is listed in the Nobel Laureates category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Elfriede Jelinek is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Austrian playwright and novelist awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her innovative use of language to critique societal clichés.
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About Elfriede Jelinek

She was raised in Vienna by her Romanian-German Catholic mother and a non-observant Czech Jewish father (whose surname Jelínek means "little deer" in Czech). Her mother's family was of an upper middle-class background, while her father was a working-class socialist. Her father was a chemist, who managed to avoid persecution during the Second World War by working in strategically important industrial production. Her mother, with whom she had a strained...

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