Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
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As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.Elfriede Jelinek
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
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was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.
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The Academy may not want to give the prize to another young author.
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That started very early on, and then I guess I tried to close up this fissure with something that was accessible to me, and all I had was writing.
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depicting it as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel, 'Die Kinder der Toten.'
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