The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009
Awarded on: 2009-10-08
"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
Herta Müller
Born: 1953-08-17 in Nitzkydorf, Banat, Romania
Gender: female
Field: German writer and Nobel Prize recipient (born 1953)
Biography
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 Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.