Re: JCO: Nobel prize
I know the name, but that's mostly from seeing the film of "The Piano
Teacher". I haven't read anything of hers.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gaffney, Karen"
To:
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:28 PM
Subject: RE: JCO: Nobel prize
> Alas, we'll have to keep waiting for JCO to win. Below is an article from
> today's NY Times describing the Austrian winner. I'm not familiar with her
> work.
> -Karen
>
>
> Austrian Writer Wins Nobel in Literature
>
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
>
>
> Filed at 10:36 a.m. ET
>
> STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- 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 to award the prize to a woman, and a poet, was the first
> since 1996, when Wislawa Szymborska of Poland won. Since the prize first
> was handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it.
>
> Jelinek, 57, made her literary debut with the collection ``Lisas
> Schatten'' in 1967. Her writing took a critical turn after her involvement
> with the student movements that were prevalent throughout Europe in the
> 1970s, coming out with her satirical novel ``We Are Decoys, Baby!''
>
> That was followed by other works, including ``Wonderful, Wonderful Times''
> in 1990 and ``The Piano Teacher'' in 1988, which was made into an
> acclaimed film in 2001 by director Michael Haneke and starred Isabelle
> Huppert.
>
> The novel, and the film, tells the story of a veteran piano teacher,
> Erika, a harsh and demanding taskmistress who indulges her extreme sexual
> tastes with hardcore pornography and voyeurism. She becomes sexually
> involved with a student -- but only under her terms and dictates.
>
> She had a best seller in 1989 with ``Lust,'' which she has described as
> portraying ``the violence by the man against the woman'' in a conventional
> marriage.
>
> The academy noted that Jelinek is controversial in Austria, which she
> depicted as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel ``Die Kinder
> der Toten.''
>
> In 2000, she instructed her publishers to withhold the performance rights
> of her plays from all Austrian theaters as long as the party of rightist
> leader Joerg Haider was part of the government.
>
> ``Her writing builds on a lengthy Austrian tradition of linguistically
> sophisticated social criticism, with precursors such as Johann Nepomuk
> Nestroy, Karl Kraus, Odon von Horvath, Elias Canetti, Thomas Bernhard and
> the Wiener Group,'' the academy said in its citation.
>
> ``The nature of Jelinek's texts is often hard to define. They shift
> between prose and poetry, incantation and hymn, they contain theatrical
> scenes and filmic sequences.''
>
> Her recent works are variations on one of her basic feminist themes: the
> seeming inability of women to find themselves fully and live out their
> lives in a world where they are glossed over as stereotypes.
>
> The 18 lifetime members of the 218-year-old Swedish Academy, of whom only
> four are women, made the annual selection in secrecy last week.
>
> Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite who
> endowed the awards, left only vague guidance about the prize, saying in
> his will that it should go to those who ``shall have conferred the
> greatest benefit on mankind'' and ``who shall have produced in the field
> of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.''
>
> For any writer, there could hardly be any greater honor than winning the
> Nobel Prize. But for an author whose work is not widely translated, it
> opens doors to new markets, and sales.
>
> The prize also brings a financial security net, too: A check of more than
> $1.3 million.
>
> The academy has given the award to Europeans nine times in the last 10
> years.
>
> Since 1980, only three winners have come from Africa, four from South
> America, two from the United States and one from Asia. It's been 14 years
> since someone from the Middle East -- Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz -- was given
> the nod.
>
> Last year's award went to South African writer J.M. Coetzee, whose fiction
> drew on his experiences growing up there. In 2002, the prize went to
> Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz, whose fiction drew on his experience as a
> teenager in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
>
> This year's award announcements began Monday with the Nobel Prize in
> physiology or medicine going to Americans Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck
> for their work on the sense of smell.
>
> On Tuesday, Americans David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek
> won the physics prize for their explanation of the force that binds
> particles inside the atomic nucleus. Their work has helped science get
> closer to ``a theory for everything,'' the academy said in awarding the
> prize.
>
> The chemistry prize was awarded Wednesday to Israelis Aaron Ciechanover
> and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose for their work in discovering a
> process that lets cells destroy unwanted proteins.
>
> The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
> will be announced Oct. 11.
>
> The winner of the coveted peace prize -- the only one not awarded in
> Sweden -- will be announced Friday in Oslo, Norway.
>
> The prizes, which also include a gold medal and a diploma, are presented
> on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jco@usfca.edu on behalf of Cyranomish@aol.com
> Sent: Thu 10/7/2004 11:02 AM
> To: jco@usfca.edu
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: JCO: Nobel prize
>
>
>
> Thanks, Bjorn: Which country? A woman? Poet, play or novels?
> Cyrano
>
> In a message dated 10/7/2004 9:39:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> bjorn.hj@mail.com writes:
>
> << Elfriede Jelinek, to bad... Our academy vanted to be "advanced".
>
> Björn >>
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Teacher". I haven't read anything of hers.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gaffney, Karen"
To:
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:28 PM
Subject: RE: JCO: Nobel prize
> Alas, we'll have to keep waiting for JCO to win. Below is an article from
> today's NY Times describing the Austrian winner. I'm not familiar with her
> work.
> -Karen
>
>
> Austrian Writer Wins Nobel in Literature
>
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
>
>
> Filed at 10:36 a.m. ET
>
> STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- 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 to award the prize to a woman, and a poet, was the first
> since 1996, when Wislawa Szymborska of Poland won. Since the prize first
> was handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it.
>
> Jelinek, 57, made her literary debut with the collection ``Lisas
> Schatten'' in 1967. Her writing took a critical turn after her involvement
> with the student movements that were prevalent throughout Europe in the
> 1970s, coming out with her satirical novel ``We Are Decoys, Baby!''
>
> That was followed by other works, including ``Wonderful, Wonderful Times''
> in 1990 and ``The Piano Teacher'' in 1988, which was made into an
> acclaimed film in 2001 by director Michael Haneke and starred Isabelle
> Huppert.
>
> The novel, and the film, tells the story of a veteran piano teacher,
> Erika, a harsh and demanding taskmistress who indulges her extreme sexual
> tastes with hardcore pornography and voyeurism. She becomes sexually
> involved with a student -- but only under her terms and dictates.
>
> She had a best seller in 1989 with ``Lust,'' which she has described as
> portraying ``the violence by the man against the woman'' in a conventional
> marriage.
>
> The academy noted that Jelinek is controversial in Austria, which she
> depicted as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel ``Die Kinder
> der Toten.''
>
> In 2000, she instructed her publishers to withhold the performance rights
> of her plays from all Austrian theaters as long as the party of rightist
> leader Joerg Haider was part of the government.
>
> ``Her writing builds on a lengthy Austrian tradition of linguistically
> sophisticated social criticism, with precursors such as Johann Nepomuk
> Nestroy, Karl Kraus, Odon von Horvath, Elias Canetti, Thomas Bernhard and
> the Wiener Group,'' the academy said in its citation.
>
> ``The nature of Jelinek's texts is often hard to define. They shift
> between prose and poetry, incantation and hymn, they contain theatrical
> scenes and filmic sequences.''
>
> Her recent works are variations on one of her basic feminist themes: the
> seeming inability of women to find themselves fully and live out their
> lives in a world where they are glossed over as stereotypes.
>
> The 18 lifetime members of the 218-year-old Swedish Academy, of whom only
> four are women, made the annual selection in secrecy last week.
>
> Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite who
> endowed the awards, left only vague guidance about the prize, saying in
> his will that it should go to those who ``shall have conferred the
> greatest benefit on mankind'' and ``who shall have produced in the field
> of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.''
>
> For any writer, there could hardly be any greater honor than winning the
> Nobel Prize. But for an author whose work is not widely translated, it
> opens doors to new markets, and sales.
>
> The prize also brings a financial security net, too: A check of more than
> $1.3 million.
>
> The academy has given the award to Europeans nine times in the last 10
> years.
>
> Since 1980, only three winners have come from Africa, four from South
> America, two from the United States and one from Asia. It's been 14 years
> since someone from the Middle East -- Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz -- was given
> the nod.
>
> Last year's award went to South African writer J.M. Coetzee, whose fiction
> drew on his experiences growing up there. In 2002, the prize went to
> Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz, whose fiction drew on his experience as a
> teenager in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
>
> This year's award announcements began Monday with the Nobel Prize in
> physiology or medicine going to Americans Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck
> for their work on the sense of smell.
>
> On Tuesday, Americans David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek
> won the physics prize for their explanation of the force that binds
> particles inside the atomic nucleus. Their work has helped science get
> closer to ``a theory for everything,'' the academy said in awarding the
> prize.
>
> The chemistry prize was awarded Wednesday to Israelis Aaron Ciechanover
> and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose for their work in discovering a
> process that lets cells destroy unwanted proteins.
>
> The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
> will be announced Oct. 11.
>
> The winner of the coveted peace prize -- the only one not awarded in
> Sweden -- will be announced Friday in Oslo, Norway.
>
> The prizes, which also include a gold medal and a diploma, are presented
> on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jco@usfca.edu on behalf of Cyranomish@aol.com
> Sent: Thu 10/7/2004 11:02 AM
> To: jco@usfca.edu
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: JCO: Nobel prize
>
>
>
> Thanks, Bjorn: Which country? A woman? Poet, play or novels?
> Cyrano
>
> In a message dated 10/7/2004 9:39:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> bjorn.hj@mail.com writes:
>
> << Elfriede Jelinek, to bad... Our academy vanted to be "advanced".
>
> Björn >>
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