A lady-Austria's Elfriede Jelinek of literature wins prize for her social commentary (评论).
For a writer, there is hardly any greater 41 than winning the Nobel Prize for literature.
And for a woman writer, receiving the prize is 42 harder, for only eight women have won it since the prize was first 43 in 1901.
Austria's Elfriede Jelinek is the ninth and the first 44 1996.
The Stockholm-based Swedish Academy 45 last Thursday that Jelinek won this year's Nobel Prize in literature. She is 46 for her socially critical (批判的) novels and plays.
Jelinek, 57, started her literary 47 in 1967. She has written plays, novels and poetry. She is 48 known for her autobiographical (自传体) 1983 novel "The Piano Teacher", 49 a movie in 2001.
The basic 50 of her work is the inability of women to live as people beyond the roles and personalities 51 expected of them. Her 52 struggle to lead lives not normally acceptable in 53 . "The nature of Jelinek's texts is often hard to define (标明界限). They shift 54 prose (散文) and poetry, they 55 theatrical scenes and film script," said the academy.
The Nobel Prize was 56 by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. Nobel died in 1896 and 57 his fortune of about US$920 million to a fund to 58 people who have 59 other human beings. This year each prize 60 US$1.3 million.
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