2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
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." She is the ninth German-language writer to become a recipient of the prize after Günter Grass in 1999.
"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 language is German. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Müller in 2019
Reading The Hunger Angel, Potsdam, July 2010
Müller's nail scissors, which she used to cut words from printed materials, hanging in the Nobel Prize Museum.
Müller signing one of her books in September 2009