Herta Muller Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2009.

The German author Herta Müller has won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature for works inspired by – and often portraying – life under Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship in her native Romania. The Swedish Academy, which awards the £895,000 prize, hailed Müller, 56, as a writer who "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed". Müller was born in a German-speaking village near Timisoara in western Romania but fled the country with her husband in 1987, two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Christmas coup which saw Ceausescu deposed and executed in Romania. She has long been considered a candidate for the award and the permanent secretary of the Academy, Peter Englund, paid tribute to her today as a "great artist of words" who combined a fantastic language with extreme precision. . . . Read the rest here: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6866020.ece.