Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 2009

This year the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Herta Müller, "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed".

Herta Müller

Herta Müller was born August 17, 1953, in Niţchidorf, Timiş County, Romania. She is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the harsh conditions of life in Romania under Ceauşescu.