Austria Novelist Wins Nobel for Literature

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a reclusive author whose feminism, leftist politics and pacifism are common themes in her works, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what the Swedish Academy called her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays."

Her most famous novel, "The Piano Teacher" in 1983, was adapted into a 2001 film by director Michael Haneke, although her other works are well-known in German-speaking countries, and she is widely translated in French.

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Austria Novelist Wins Nobel for Literature

Jelinek, 57, told The Associated Press in Vienna she would not attend the Dec. 10 award ceremony in Stockholm because she suffers from "a social phobia."

"When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side," she said.

Her lates...

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