Nobel Prize Goes to German Author Herta Müller
German novelist Herta Müller has become only the 12th woman in 108 years to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Müller, who is praised for the precision of her words, received death threats under the Ceausescu regime in her native Romania. She emigrated in 1987 and now lives in Germany.
“On one hand she’s an excellent author with truly fantastic language, and on the other she has the capacity of really giving you a sense of what it’s like to live in a dictatorship, also what it’s like to be part of a minority in another country and what it’s like to be an exile,” said the secretary of the Swedish Academy. He suggests that readers unfamiliar with her work begin with Müller’s novel The Land of Green Plums, which many think is her best work.
Nora Rawlinson over at Early Word has updated information on the editions available.
