Herta Müller
Herta Müller (b. 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Niatchidorf (German: Nitzkydorf), Timi in Romania, her native language is German. She's been established internationally since the early 1990s, and her works have been translated into over twenty languages.
Müller is recognised for her work illustrating the impacts of brutality, brutality and terror, notably in the socialist republic of Romania under the harsh Nicolae Ceauescu dictatorship she experienced herself. Many of her works are told from the perspective of the German minority in Romania and also represent the current history of the Germans in Banat and Transylvania. Her much-acclaimed 2009 novel The Hunger Angel (Atemschaukel) describes Romania's German minority deportation to Soviet Gulags during Romania's Soviet occupation for use as German forced labour.
To date, Müller has received over 20 accolades including the Kleist Prize (1994), the Aristeion Prize (1995), the Dublin Literary Award (1998) and the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award (2009). On 8 October 2009, the Swedish Academy announced that it had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, characterising her as a lady "who, with poetry focus and prose frankness, evokes the terrain of the displaced."
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