Herta Müller wins the nobel prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to the German author Herta Müller.
Herta Müller was born on August 17, 1953 in the German-speaking town of 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.
The novels Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger (1992), Herztier (1994), The Land of Green Plums (1996), Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet (1997) and The Appointment (2001) give, with chiselled details, a portrait of daily life in a stagnated dictatorship. Herta Müller has given guest lectures at universities, colleges and other venues in Paderborn, Warwick, Hamburg, Swansea, Gainsville (Florida), Kassel, Göttingen, Tübingen and Zürich (Switzerland). She lives in Berlin (Germany). Since 1995 she is a member of Deutsche für Sprache und Dichtung, in Darmstadt.