herta muller concentration poetry frankness prose depicts landscape dispossessed nobel prize literature ller emigrated germany years persecution censorship romania german writer nobel award nter grass herta ller born august german-speaking town nitzkydorf banat romania parents members german-speaking minority romania father served waffen world german romanians deported soviet union including ller's mother spent years work camp present-day ukraine years atemschaukel ller depict exile german romanians soviet union ller studied german romanian literature university timi oara temeswar period aktionsgruppe banat circle young german-speaking authors opposition ceau escu's dictatorship sought freedom speech completing studies worked translator machine factory dismissed refused informant secret police dismissal harassed securitate ller made debut collection short stories niederungen censored romania years published uncensored version germany year ckender tango romania works ller depicts life small german-speaking village corruption intolerance repression found romanian national press critical works romania german press received positively ller publicly criticized dictatorship romania prohibited publishing country ller emigrated husband author richard wagner novels fuchs damals schon herztier land green plums heute lieber nicht begegnet appointment give chiselled details portrait daily life stagnated dictatorship ller guest lectures universities colleges venues paderborn warwick hamburg swansea gainsville florida kassel ttingen bingen rich places lives berlin served member deutsche akademie sprache dichtung darmstadt works german niederungen bukarest kriterion-verlag berlin rotbuch-verlag ckender tango hlungen bukarest kriterion-verlag reinbek hamburg rowohlt mensch fasan welt roman berlin rotbuch-verlag barf iger februar prosa berlin rotbuch-verlag reisende einem bein berlin rotbuch-verlag teufel sitzt spiegel berlin rotbuch-verlag fuchs damals schon roman reinbek hamburg rowohlt eine warme kartoffel warmes bett hamburg europ ische verlagsanstalt chter nimmt seinen kamm weggehen ausscheren reinbek hamburg rowohlt herztier roman reinbek hamburg rowohlt hunger seide essays reinbek hamburg rowohlt falle ttingen wallstein-verlag heute lieber nicht begegnet reinbek hamburg rowohlt fremde blick oder leben furz laterne ttingen wallstein-verlag haarknoten wohnt eine dame reinbek hamburg rowohlt heimat gesprochen wird blieskastel gollenstein verneigt sich nchen hanser blassen herren mokkatassen nchen hanser atemschaukel roman nchen hanser works english passport translated martin chalmers london serpent's tail translation mensch fasan welt land green plums translated michael hofmann york metropolitan books translation herztier traveling translated german valentina glajar andr lefevere evanston northwestern university press translation reisende einem bein appointment translated michael hulse philip boehm york metropolitan books translation heute lieber nicht begegnet 