2009 Nobel Prize in Literature

Herta Muller, a German novelist and essayist born in Romania, has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. The exiled writer described the oppression in her native country posed by dictatorship in much of her work. The Swedish Academy described Ms. Müller, “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.” Muller, 56, emigrated to Germany in 1987 after years of persecution and censorship. Her most popular works are "Land of the Green Plums" and "The Appointment".

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