Austrian writer and poet Elfriede Jelinek has won the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature.
According to the Swedish Academy, she won for "her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power".
Jelinek, 57, made her literary debut in 1967 and has since written plays, novels and poetry.
She is best-known for her autobiographical 1983 novel 'The Piano Teacher', which was made into a film, starring Isabelle Huppert, in 2001.
Only nine women have won the Nobel Literature Prize since it was first handed out in 1901. Most recently, it went to Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska in 1996.
Last year, the €1.1 million prize went to JM Coetzee of South Africa.
