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.
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.