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Herta Müller (German: [ˈhɛʁta ˈmʏlɐ] ⓘ; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (German: Niczkydorf ; Hungarian: Niczkyfalva ), Timiș County in Romania; her native language is German.
Herta Müller (born August 17, 1953, Nițchidorf, Romania) is a Romanian-born German writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009 for her works revealing the harshness of life in Romania under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu. The award cited Müller for depicting “the landscape of the dispossessed” with “the concentration ...
For Herta Müller, her father’s service as an SS soldier in the “Panzer Division Frundsberg” provided a frightening example of how individuals can be corrupted by ideology and opportunism – and inoculated her at a young age against similar structures within the communist ideology.
Herta Müller. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009. Born: 17 August 1953, Nitzkydorf, Banat, Romania. Residence at the time of the award: Germany. Prize motivation: “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”. Language: German. Prize share: 1/1.
Herta Müller delivered her Nobel Lecture, 7 December 2009, at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm. She was introduced by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. The lecture was delivered in German.
May 19, 2012 · Herta Müller, the Nobel Prize-winning author, grew up German in Romania, always under surveillance. Her newest work is a collaboration with a writer whose background was similar, but...
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Oct 8, 2009 · Herta Müller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who writes of the oppression of dictatorship in her native country and the unmoored existence of the political exile, won the...
