Herta Müller's The Village on the Edge of the World, a reflection on life behind the Iron Curtain, is due for release by ...

German writer Herta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, will be awarded the German Culture Prize to honour her lifetime achievements, the jury said on Wednesday. Born 1953, Müller, ...

Herta Mueller, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in a tiny German community in Romania. Her village was suffocating and insular, but Mueller recently told Swedish television ...

Upsetting a pack of writers rumored to include American lions Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, a German-Romanian author won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Herta Mueller has written poetry, essays and ...

(Reuters) - Herta Mueller, 56, won the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday. Here are some facts about Herta Mueller. * EARLY LIFE: -- Herta Mueller was born in the German-speaking town of ...

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STOCKHOLM — Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an ...

The judges, apparently, could not help themselves. Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too "Eurocentric," the winner for 2009 was Herta Mueller, a ...

Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too "Eurocentric," the winner for 2009 was Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer once censored in her native country. It ...

Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of ...

Herta Mueller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Romanian-born German writer's stories draw on experiences under a Communist dictator and resonate in Germany. (Oct. 8) ...