Herta Müller
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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
Müller in 2025
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
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
Herta Müller
…writers in Romania who supported freedom of speech over the censorship they faced under Nicolae Ceaușescu's government, and her works, including The Land of Green Plums, deal with these issues. Radu Tinu, the Securitate officer in charge of her case, denies that she ever suffered any persecutions, a claim that is opposed…
First edition (German)
Herta Müller, 2007