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laureate wrote from Germany about Romania's suffering under
communism. BUCHAREST, Romania — When German writer Herta Mueller
appeared in Stockholm Thursday to receive the Nobel Prize in
Literature, Romanians were debating how much the award meant to
their country. “We have a reason to be proud,” host Andreea Esca
said when presenting primetime news on the commercial Pro TV
channel. Readers of Mueller’s work, such as economist Roxana
Puscas, agreed. “Even if Mueller lives in Germany and writes in
German, her books describe in detail her experiences in Romania
and life here in general. So of course we, as a nation, feel in
the spotlight,” she said. Others believe that Romania has
nothing to do with this prize. “Until this fall she was
virtually unknown here, so it’s unfair for us to start bragging
about ‘our writer,’” said teacher George Marin. Born in 1953 to
a farmer’s family of German ethnicity close to Romania’s border
near then-Yugoslavia, Mueller