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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The Land of Green Plums
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The Land of Green Plums is a novel by Herta Müller, published in 1994 by Rowohlt Verlag. The novel portrays four young people living in a totalitarian police state in Communist Romania, ending with th
2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
…literary works include Barfüßiger Februar ("Barefoot February", 1987), Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger ("The Fox Was Ever the Hunter", 1992), Herztier ("The Land of Green Plums", 1994), and Atemschaukel ("The Hunger Angel", 2009). On Ladbrokes, Israeli novelist Amos Oz was the favourite to win the…
First edition (German)
Herta Müller, 2007