Austrian 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 ...

Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a self-described advocate for “the weak” whose forceful defenses of social and political freedom have frequently clashed with conservatives in her native country, has ...

VOA's Dzeilana Pecanin and Ivana Konstantinovic contributed to this report. Almost immediately after Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austria’s Peter Handke were awarded the Nobel Literature Prize, ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2004 was awarded this morning to Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian novelist, poet, playwright, and translator. Her satirical and often dark vision of sexuality and human ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (search), a reclusive author whose feminism, leftist politics and pacifism are common themes in her works, won the Nobel Prize in literature ...