2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature
for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clich s and their subjugating power
Background
- Born: October 20, 1946
- Place of birth: Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria
- Biographical highlights:
- 1960 - Begins organ lessons at Viennese Conservatory
- 1964 - Enters study fo Theater Sciences and Art History at the University of Vienna, discontinues after a few months
- 1967 - Literary debut with Lisas Schatten
- 1971 - Passed organist diploma examination at Vienna Conservatory
- 1974 - First radio play, wenn die sonne sinkt ist für manche schon büroschluss (When the sun sinks it's time to close shop), declared most successful radio play of the year by "Die Presse"
- 1974 - Joins Austrian KPO (Communist Party)
- 1978 - City of Stadt Bad Gandersheim's Roswitha Memorial Medal
- 1979 - West German Interior Ministry Prize for Film Writing
- 1983 - West German Ministry of Education and Art Appreciation Prize
- 1986 - City of Cologne Heinrich Böll Prize
- 1987 - Province of Styria Literature Prize
- 1989 - City of Vienna Literature Appreciation Prize
- 1991 - Leaves the KPO
- 1994 - City of Aachen Walter Hasenclever Prize
- 1994 - City of Bochum Peter Weiss Prize
- 1996 - Bremer Literature Prize
- 1998 - George Büchner Prize
- 2002 - Berlin Theatre Prize
- 2003 - Else Lasker Schüler Prize, Mainz
- 2004 - Lessing Critics' Prize
- 2004 - Stig Dagerman Prize
- 2004 - Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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