Profile: Elfriede Jelinek
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The Nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as everything from a genius to Beelzebub in her native Austria. One of the most famous women writing in German she was most controversially quoted in 1980 as
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LINZ, Austria (Ticker) - Without having to face one of her compatriots, No. 9 Elena Bovina of Russia recorded a straight-sets victory in the Generali Ladies Linz tennis tournament.
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Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
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TRINEC, Czech Republic  - It's not uncommon for  Ottawa Senators forward Radek Bonk and New York Rangers forward  Jaromir Jagr to meet up on a sheet of ice and play hockey --  unless it's in their native Czech Republic.
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Reclusive Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek received her Nobel literature prize at the Swedish embassy in Vienna on Friday, as a "social phobia" illness has kept her from traveling to Stockholm.
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Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek, 57, won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her ability to reveal &quot;the absurdity of society&#39;s clich Des and their subjugating power.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - More than 60 years after the end of World War Two, German author Bernhard Schlink found the time was right to explore the guilt and moral conflicts which were a legacy of his home country's Nazi past.
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STOCKHOLM: Controversial Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek yesterday won the 2004 Nobel Literature Prize, only the 10th female laureate in its history, but said she could not pick it up due to a &quot;social phobia.
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Vienna - Nobel literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek said on Thursday that she would not be able to travel to Stockholm to receive her prize because she suffers from what she called a &quot;social phobia.
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, a wartime courier for the Polish anti-Nazi resistance and the director of Radio Free Europe's Polish service during the Cold War, has died, Polish officials said Friday. He was 91.
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Renee Zellweger might  have won the Academy Award for her dramatic supporting turn in  2003&#39;s Civil War epic &quot;Cold Mountain,&quot; but the 38-year-old  actress has demonstrated time and again that she&#39;s nothing if  not versatile, turning in showstopping performances in films  such as 2001&#39;s &quot;Bridget Jones&#39;s Diary,&quot; 2002&#39;s &quot;Chicago&quot; and  2004&#39;s &quot;Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.&quot;
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Austria&#39;s Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for novels and plays that starkly depict violence against women, explore sexuality and condemn far-right politics in Europe.
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Oct. 7, 2004 - Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a self-described advocate for &quot;the weak&quot; whose forceful defenses of social and political freedom have frequently clashed with conservatives in her native country, has won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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Svetlana Khorkina was born in a poor industrial town on the Ukraine border, but not in her mind. There, she inhabited the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, surrounded by fawning courtiers and Fabergé eggs. It showed here last night as the walls of her ...
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Q: Congratulations, Annika. 56 wins, eighth win of the season, LPGA win, and your third ADT Championship. A tricky ending there with the playoff.
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Auburn, CA (Sports Network) - Juli Inkster, a Hall of Famer and two-time former champion, posted her second consecutive five-under 66 on Friday to take the lead midway through the Longs Drugs Challenge.
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PARIS Elfriede Jelinek, a reclusive Austrian novelist and playwright who is well known in the German-speaking world for works that denounce sexual violence and oppression and rightist extremism in Austria, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature on