Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
The citation for 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.
Jelinek picks up the Swedish academy's prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.36 million).