Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 202. Not illustrated. Chapters: Austrian Female Singers, Austrian Women in Politics, Austrian Women Writers, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elfriede Jelinek, Maria Von Trapp, Mercedes Helnwein, Leonie Rysanek, Monice, Lotte Lenya, Elfi Von Dassanowsky, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Greta Keller, Anja Steinlechner, Gilla, Luttenberger*klug, Ruth Maier, Bertha Diener, Karin Resetarits, Sophie Weber, Henrietta Treffz, Hildegard Burjan, Ursula Plassnik, Melanie Kurt, Maria Berger, Soap&skin, Liese Prokop, Elisabeth Gehrer, Marianne Mendt, Gabi Burgstaller, Christa Prets, Sandra Schleret, Marialiese Flemming, Ditta Zusa Einzinger, Anita, Agnes Schierhuber, Madeleine Petrovic, Bobbie Singer, Simone Stelzer, Susanne Riess-Passer, Susanna Kubelka, Marlen Haushofer, Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, Maria Fekter, Timna Brauer, Gisburg, Ursula Stenzel, Mercedes Echerer, Martina Astner, Marie Fillunger, Lola Beeth, Martha Schlamme, Eva Lichtenberger, Karin Gastinger, Fanny Von Starhemberg, Heide Schmidt, Auguste Von Littrow, Ursula Haubner, Ulrike Lunacek, Caroline Von Gomperz-Bettelheim, Petra Frey, Franziska Tausig, Dagmar Koller, Augustina Stridsberg, Karin Scheele, Valerie Sajdik, Vera Lischka, Hermine Kittel, Thisha, Nicole Bogner, Hilde Zach, Gertrude Frohlich-Sandner. Excerpt: Elfriede Jelinek (German pronunciation: ) (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power." Jelinek was born in Murzzuschlag, Styria. Her father, a chemist of Jewish-Czech origin ("Jelinek" means "little deer" in Czech) managed to avoid persecution during the Second World War by working in strategically important industrial production. How...