Elfriede Jelinek wins $1.36m for her work
Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
The citation for Ms Jelinek praised "her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays".
Best known for her novel The Piano Teacher, which was made into a film by Michael Haneke in 2001, she is only the 10th woman to win the award.
Ms Jelinek picks up the Swedish academy's prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.36 million).
The citation from the jury also paid tribute to the way her "extraordinary linguistic zeal reveals the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power".
One of her basic themes is the inability of women to "fully come to life in a world where they are painted over with stereotypical images", the academy said in its citation.
The Nobel prizes are named after Alfred Nobel, the wealthy Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite.
Earlier this week, researchers in medicine were honoured for their breakthrough studies on the human sense of smell, and physicists were given a Nobel for their pioneering work on the fundamentals of matter.
The chemistry prize went to three scientists for their studies of what might be called the "garbage cleaners" of biological cells.
The peace prize will be announced on Friday, and the final prize, that for economics, will be announced on Monday.
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