Herta Mueller, a member of Romania's ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, began... Herta Mueller, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize ...

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The hardships and humiliations of Communist Romania are on display in this taut novel by the winner of the European Literature Prize (Müller, author of the well-received Land of Green Plums, emigrated ...

(Reuters) - Herta Mueller, 56, won the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday. Here are some facts about Herta Mueller. * EARLY LIFE: -- Herta Mueller was born in the German-speaking town of ...

Upsetting a pack of writers rumored to include American lions Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, a German-Romanian author won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Herta Mueller has written poetry, essays and ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday ...

The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller. The Nobel committee said "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, [her work] depicts ...

Herta Mueller, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in a tiny German community in Romania. Her village was suffocating and insular, but Mueller recently told Swedish television ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts ...

The decision was expected to keep alive the controversy surrounding the academy's pattern of awarding the prize to European writers. Mueller, a member of Romania's ethnic German minority, was honored ...