October 2009 Archives

Amidst all of the hoopla concerning Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, other Nobels were awarded, too.

The Romanian-born German writer, Herta Müller, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "depict[ing]" the landscape of the dispossessed."

Müller often writes of corruption and intolerance under a dictatorship, as is evidenced  in her earlier works, Niederungen (1982) and Drückender Tango (1982), which were censored in her native Romania during the Ceauşescu era.

View a bibliography of her other works.