Herta müller the nobel prize in literature 2009 was awarded to herta müller who with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.

Herta m c3 bcller poems images. Nitzkydorf timiș county in romania her native language is german. Seamlessly mixing reality with dream like images they brilliantly convey the inner troubled life of a child and at the same time capture the violence and corruption of life under an oppressive state. Getty images when herta müller was awarded the nobel prize in literature in 2009. They take her real life and put it on poetic record.

Since the early 1990s she has been internationally established and her works have been translated into more than twenty. The following is adapted from the introduction to liu xia s empty chairs from graywolf press. Their sentences oppress their. Herta müller is a romanian born german writer who won the nobel prize for literature in 2009 for her works revealing the harshness of life in romania under the dictatorship of nicolae ceauşescu.

The award cited müller for depicting the landscape of the dispossessed with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose müller of german swabian descent grew up in banat. Born in 1953 in the banat a german language region of romania she emigrated to west. Herta müller is a german romanian novelist poet essayist and recipient of the 2009 nobel prize in literature. Born 17 august 1953 is a romanian born german novelist poet essayist and recipient of the 2009 nobel prize in literature born in nițchidorf german.

Metropolitan 26 304p isbn 978 0 8050 9301 8. Herta mã ller has been one of the most prolific and acclaimed german language writers of the last decade. Herta muller on the poetry and prisoner s life of liu xia one nobel laureate praises the wife of another. November 4 2015.

Liu xia s poems are inevitably lyrical and inescapably documentary. From the german by philip boehm.

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