The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Romanian-German author Herta Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."
"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."
Müller's nail scissors, which she used to cut words from printed materials, hanging in the Nobel Prize Museum.
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Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and
2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
…The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Romanian-German author Herta Müller (born 1953) "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed." She is the ninth German-language…
Müller in 2025
Reading The Hunger Angel, Potsdam, July 2010
Müller signing one of her books in September 2009