And the winner is ...

[monroe at mpm.edu]

Elfriede Jelinek  
Austria  
b. 1946 

"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"

http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2004/

Jelinek has translated others' works (Thomas Pynchon, Georges Feydeau,
Eugène Labiche, Christopher Marlowe) and has also written film scripts and
an opera libretto. Alongside her literary writing she has made a reputation
as a dauntless polemicist with a website always poised to comment on burning
issues....

http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2004/jelinek-bibl.html