Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for Elfriede Jelinek
© Karin Rocholl
The Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, was awarded with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is a French honorary order established on 2 May 1957 and administered by the Ministry of Culture. It is awarded to those who have distinguished themselves for their creations in the artistic-literary field or for their contribution to the dissemination of the arts and letters in France and around the world.
During the ceremony on Sunday 14 April in Vienna, Gilles Pécout, the French Ambassador to Austria, said that Elfriede Jelinek's literature "always contributes to freedom and most of all to the freedom of the weakest".
Jelinek is one of the most widely read German-language writers and playwrights in France and in 2009, the French Ministry of Education declared her books compulsory reading.
Among her best-known works are the novels "Die Klavierspielerin", "Angabe der Person" and "Die Liebhaberinnen", as well as numerous plays.
Publishing house La Nave di Teseo is bringing Jelinek's Work to Italy: the novels 'Jackie' (2017), 'Gli esclusi' (2018), 'Le amanti' (2020), 'La voglia' (2022) and 'Dati personali' (2023) have been already published. 
