Herta Mller receives 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature

13 October 2009 Books+Publishing

German author Herta Müller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Svenska Akademien described Müller as a writer, ‘who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed’. Müller emigrated from Romania to Germany in 1987 after years of persecution...