2007-9-13

Sina Culture Dispatch, according to source of Reuters, Sweden Royal Literature Institution announced on Pm 13,October 7, Local Time (Pm 19, October 7, Beijing Time) that Austria authoress Elfriede Jelinek won Nobel Literature Prize in 2004.

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences£¨RSAS£©said in the award proclaim: "the grounds for conferring Harold Pinter Nobel Literature Award lie in "the music auto kinetic effect that she expressed in her novel and drama, and the social absurdness and its magic power that make people yield, which she expressed inn her super language. "

Jelinek will acquire a premium of SEK 10 million (about Euro 1.10 million). This was the first female writer who the Nobel Literature Prize was awarded since 1996. In more than one hundred years from 1901 to nowadays, only 9 female writers won Nobel Literature Prize.

Jelinek was born in Murzushelak, a small town of Austria in 1946. She published her first works anthology LisasSchatten in 1967. Afterwards, she joined the students movement broke out in Europe in 1970s and published her sarcasm novel wirsindlockvochgelbaby!, she also published Die Ausgesperrten in 1990 and autobiography novel The Piano Teacher in 1998, which was later filmed and won several great awards in Festival International du Film de Cannes in 2001.

John Maxwell Coetzee, a writer from South Africa won Nobel Literature Prize in 2003 on account of "his staunch support for fragile individual struggle experience expressed through writing in the history that human being fight against barbarism and fatuity. "