2004 Nobel Prize in Literature

2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
Elfriede Jelinek
	"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"
Date	7 October 2004 (announcement); 10 December 2004 ; (ceremony);
Location	Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by	Swedish Academy
First awarded	1901
Website	Official website

The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) "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".^[1] She is the tenth female and the first Austrian Nobel laureate followed by Peter Handke in 2019.

^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 nobelprize.org

[1] The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 nobelprize.org

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