Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a
Romanian-born
German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the harsh conditions of life in
Communist Romania under the repressive
Nicolae Ceauşescu regime, the history of the Germans in the
Banat (and more broadly,
Transylvania), and the persecution of Romanian
ethnic Germans by Stalinist Soviet occupying forces in Romania. Müller has been an internationally well-known author since the early 1990s, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages.
[2][3] She has received over 20 awards, including the 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. On 8 October 2009, it was announced she would be awarded the 2009
Nobel Prize in Literature.
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