Austrian woman wins Nobel for literature

Daily Breeze | October 8, 2004| | Copyright

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Aus-trian feminist writer Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays."

The decision to award the prize to a woman, and a poet, was the first since 1996, when Wislawa Szymborska of Poland won. Since the prize first was handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it.

Jelinek, 57, made her literary debut with the collection Lisas Schatten in 1967. Her writing took a critical turn after her involvement with the student movements that were prevalent throughout ...

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