Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek, born in 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, in Styria, the daughter of a chemist of Czech Jewish origin and of a mother from the Viennese bourgeoisie who wanted her to be a musical prodigy, learned the piano, the organ and the recorder from a very early age, then studied at the Vienna conservatoire, where she obtained her organist's diploma in 1971. In 1967, anxiety attacks made her break off her studies in theatre and art history, and she spent a year shut away at home. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, she could not travel to Stockholm, prevented by her social phobia.

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• NovelThe Piano TeacherDie KlavierspielerinElfriede Jelinek · 1983Literature