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VIENNA, DEC. 19. The winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in literature, Elfriede Jelinek, has received her award in a small ceremony at the residence of the Swedish Ambassador in Vienna. Ms. Jelinek did not attend the December 10 festivities in Stockholm because of what she describes as ``a social phobia. I'm not in a mental shape to withstand such ceremonies,'' she told The Associated Press on October 7, the day the Swedish Academy announced it had awarded her the prize for her ``musical flow of voices and counter-voices.'' On Friday, the Swedish Academy's Permanent Secretary, Horace Engdahl, handed Ms. Jelinek the prize — which includes a gold medal, a diploma and a euro1.1 million ($1.5 million) check — in a brief, low-key ceremony. The Stockholm Nobel festivities featured a broadcast of a videotaped lecture Ms. Jelinek earlier had delivered in her Vienna home. The speech, titled `Sidelined,' commented on the role of writers in society. ``Is writing the gift of curling up, of curling up with reality?'' she asked in that lecture. ``One would so love to curl up, of course, but what happens to me then? What happens to those, who don't really know reality at all? It's so very dishevelled. No comb, that could smooth it down.'' Ms. Jelinek was the first literature laureate not to attend the Stockholm prize ceremony and the banquet since British-born Australian Patrick White in 1973.
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