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"My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey."

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About Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet known for formally experimental and socially critical writing. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.

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