Elfriede Jelinek
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Raised in Vienna after a childhood in Mürzzuschlag, she earned an organist diploma from the Vienna Conservatory and briefly pursued art history and theater at the University of Vienna before turning to literature as a therapeutic outlet. Her debut novel Lisas Schatten appeared in 1967, and a first literary prize followed in 1969, after which she produced poetry, radio plays, theatre texts, screenp…
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