Herta Muller “who with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose depicts the landscape of the dispossessed” won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature. Ms. Müller 56 emigrated to Germany in 1987 after years of persecution and censorship in Romania. She is the first German writer to win the Nobel award since Günter Grass in 1999. Herta Müller was born on August 17 1953 in the German-speaking town Nitzkydorf in Banat Romania. Her parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania. Her father had served in the Waffen SS during World War II. Many German Romanians were deported to the Soviet Union in 1945 including Müller’s mother who spent five years in a work camp in present-day Ukraine. Many years later in Atemschaukel 2009 Müller was to depict the exile of the German Romanians in the Soviet Union. From 1973 to 1976 Müller studied German and Romanian literature at the university in Timi oara Temeswar . During this period she was associated with Aktionsgruppe Banat a circle of young German-speaking authors who in opposition to Ceau escu’s dictatorship sought freedom of speech. After completing her studies she worked as a translator at a machine factory from 1977 to 1979. She was dismissed when she refused to be an informant for the secret police. After her dismissal she was harassed by Securitate. Müller made her debut with the collection of short stories Niederungen 1982 which was censored in Romania. Two years later she published the uncensored version in Germany and in the same year Drückender Tango in Romania. In these two works Müller depicts life in a small German-speaking village and the corruption intolerance and repression to be found there. The Romanian national press was very critical of these works while outside of Romania the German press received them very positively. Because Müller had publicly criticized the dictatorship in Romania she was prohibited from publishing in her own country. In 1987 Müller emigrated together with her husband author Richard Wagner. The novels Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger 1992 Herztier 1994 The Land of Green Plums 1996 and Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet 1997 The Appointment 2001 give with chiselled details a portrait of daily life in a stagnated dictatorship. Müller has given guest lectures at universities colleges and other venues in Paderborn Warwick Hamburg Swansea Gainsville Florida Kassel Göttingen Tübingen and Zürich among other places. She lives in Berlin. Since 1995 she has served as a member of Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt. Works in German Niederungen. – Bukarest : Kriterion-Verlag 1982 Berlin : Rotbuch-Verlag 1984 Drückender Tango : Erzählungen. – Bukarest : Kriterion-Verlag 1984 Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt 1996 Der Mensch ist ein gro er Fasan auf der Welt : Roman. – Berlin : Rotbuch-Verlag 1986 Barfü iger Februar : Prosa. – Berlin : Rotbuch-Verlag 1987 Reisende auf einem Bein. – Berlin : Rotbuch-Verlag 1989 Der Teufel sitzt im Spiegel. – Berlin : Rotbuch-Verlag 1991 Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger : Roman. – Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt 1992 Eine warme Kartoffel ist ein warmes Bett. – Hamburg : Europäische Verlagsanstalt 1992 Der Wächter nimmt seinen Kamm : vom Weggehen und Ausscheren. – Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt 1993 Herztier : Roman. – Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt 1994 Hunger und Seide : Essays. – Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt 1995 In der Falle. – Göttingen : Wallstein-Verlag 1996 Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet. – Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt 1997 Der fremde Blick oder Das Leben ist ein Furz in der Laterne. – Göttingen : Wallstein-Verlag 1999 Im Haarknoten wohnt eine Dame. – Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt 2000 Heimat ist das was gesprochen wird. – Blieskastel : Gollenstein 2001 Der König verneigt sich und tötet. – München : Hanser 2003 Die blassen Herren mit den Mokkatassen. – München : Hanser 2005 Atemschaukel : Roman. – München : Hanser 2009 Works in English The Passport / translated by Martin Chalmers. – London : Serpent’s Tail 1989. – Translation of Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt The Land of Green Plums / translated by Michael Hofmann. – New York : Metropolitan Books 1996. – Translation of Herztier Traveling on One Leg / translated from the German by Valentina Glajar and André Lefevere. – Evanston Ill. : Northwestern University Press 1998. – Translation of Reisende auf einem Bein The Appointment / translated by Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm. – New York : Metropolitan Books 2001. – Translation of Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet Share this article Close   Bookmark and Share This Page Save to Browser Favorites / Bookmarks Ask backflip blinklist BlogBookmark Bloglines BlogMarks Blogsvine BuddyMarks BUMPzee CiteULike co.mments Connotea del.icio.us Digg diigo DotNetKicks DropJack dzone Facebook Fark Faves Feed Me Links Friendsite folkd.com Furl Google Hugg Jamespot Jeqq Kaboodle kirtsy linkaGoGo LinkedIn LinksMarker Ma.gnolia Mister Wong Mixx MySpace MyWeb Netvouz Newsvine oneview OnlyWire PlugIM Propeller Reddit Rojo Segnalo Shoutwire Simpy Slashdot Sphere Sphinn Spurl Squidoo StumbleUpon Technorati ThisNext Twitter Webride Windows Live Worlds Movies Yahoo Email This to a Friend Copy HTML:  input readonly  readonly onclick  this.select  type  text value  Herta Muller Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature size  84 title  Copy this HTML to create a link to this page /   If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed . 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