Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

Eine Komödie (Service Area or They're All Doing It. Women as Lovers (1994) translation of Die Liebhaberinnen by Martin Chalmers. Jelinek's novel The Piano Teacher was the basis for the 2001 film of the same title by Austrian director Michael Haneke with French actress Isabelle Huppert as the protagonist.

Elfriede Jelinek (German: [ɛlˈfʀiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. ".