Originally published in 1995 in German, the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek’s “The Children of the Dead” is perhaps the only zombie novel written by a Nobel Prize winner. Of course — Jelinek being ...

Thanks to a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the Hillsborough, N.J., resident spent October through June in ...

“Monster’s Paradise,” by Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek, attempts an operatic response to current events and politics. Is that possible? By Joshua Barone Olga Neuwirth’s new opera, “Monster’s ...

A long awaited English translation of her shocking magnum opus, The Children of the Dead, asks its readers to look at the violent history buried just beneath their feet. Elfriede Jelinek, 1986. If you ...

The Nobel prize for literature has this year been awarded to the Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek. The Swedish Academy, which has given the award to a European nine times in the ...

Elfriede Jelinek, the Nobel prize-winning Austrian playwright, novelist and poet, is renowned for politically charged, challenging works as much as for an unconventional dramatic writing style. Her ...