Posted 4 years ago just before lunchtime by oso
Doesn’t ring a bell? Yeah, me neither.
Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
Its citation for the $1.36 million prize said she had won “for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society’s cliches and their subjugating power.”
Seriously, where do these people come up with this stuff? The Nobel Prize in Literature is supposed to be the most prestigious award among writers, internationally, and yet every year the committee chooses someone more and more obscure.
No, I haven’t read anything (only four works have been translated into English) by Elfriede Jelinek so no, I don’t know whether she is worthy of the prize or not, but I certainly feel bad for such accomplished writers like Milan Kundera, Philip Roth, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates who go unnoticed year after year.
