After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy, |
depicting it as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel, 'Die Kinder der Toten.' |
It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those who came before Elfriede Jelinek and those who came after her. |
The Academy may not want to give the prize to another young author |
was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power. |
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. |