Photo Gallery Herta Müller
The unexpected Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller was praised for her depiction of the horrors of a Soviet camp. She herself suffered censorship during during Nicolae Ceausescu's regime in communist Romania.
On Thursday, Herta Müller was awared the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature.
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Müller was born into the German-speaking minority in Romania, but left the communist country due to repression by the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.
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Herta Müller was praised by the judges for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose."
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Herta Müller's novel "Atemschaukel" was published in August 2009 and is considered her masterpiece. An English translation is currently in the works with the working title "Everything I Have I Carry with Me."
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Herta Müller in a discussion with former East German dissident Jens Reich. Müller's new book describes the fate of a young man deported to a camp in the Soviet Union.
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