Biography
Herta Müller (German: [ˈhɛʁta ˈmʏlɐ] ; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (German: Niczkydorf; Hungarian: Niczkyfalva), Timiș County in Romania; her native language is German. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.Müller is noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of the Socialist Republic of Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceaușescu regime which she has experienced herself. Many of her works are told from the viewpoint of the German minority in Romania and are also a depiction of the modern history of the Germans in the Banat and Transylvania. Her much acclaimed 2009 novel The Hunger Angel (Atemschaukel) portrays the deportation of Romania's German minority to Soviet Gulags during the Soviet occupation of Romania for use as German forced labour.
Müller has received more than twenty awards to date, including the Kleist Prize (1994), the Aristeion Prize (1995), the International Dublin Literary Award (1998) and the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award (2009). On 8 October 2009, the Swedish Academy announced that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing her as a woman "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed".
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GenderFemale
Birthday1953-08-17 (70 years old)
Birth PlaceNițchidorf, Romanian People's Republic
RelationshipsRichard Wagner (1984-01-01 - 1989-01-01)
CitizenshipsGermany, Romania
ResidencesBerlin, Germany
AwardsKnight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Best Translated Book Award, honorary doctor of the University of Jena, Ehrengabe der Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft, Förderpreis zum Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen, Premiul UTC la secțiunea „lucrări în limbile naționalităților conlocuitoare", Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn-Förderpreis, Aspekte-Literaturpreis, Walter-Hasenclever-Literaturpreis, Tübinger Poetik-Dozentur, Würth-Preis für Europäische Literatur, Stadtschreiber von Bergen, Samuel-Bogumil-Linde prize, Roswitha Prize, Hannelore Greve literature award, Brüder-Grimm-Poetikprofessur, Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Franz Werfel Human Rights Award, Franz Nabl Prize, Franz-Kafka-Preis, Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis, Aristeion Prize, Ida-Dehmel-Literaturpreis, Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis, Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize, Rauriser Literaturpreis, Eugen Kogon Award, honorary doctor of the University of Paderborn, International Dublin Literary Award, Deutscher Sprachpreis, Deutscher Kritikerpreis, Ricarda-Huch-Preis, Cicero Orator Prize, Carl Zuckmayer Medal, Berliner Literaturpreis, Monismanien Prize, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Kleist Prize, Heinrich-Böll-Preis, Joseph-Breitbach-Preis, Nobel Prize in Literature
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