What is Herta Müller?
{{nobelprize|Literature}} {{Infobox Writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]] --> | name = Herta Müller | image = Herta Müller 1.jpg | imagesize = | caption = (2012) | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|08|17|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Niţchidorf]], [[Timiş County]], [[Communist Romania|Romania]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = [[Writer]] | nationality = [[Germany|German]], [[Romania]]n | period = 1982–present | genre = | subject = | spouse = [[Richard Wagner (novelist)|Richard Wagner]] | movement = | notableworks = | awards = {{awd|[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]|2009}} | signature = | website = }} '''Herta Müller''' (born 17 August 1953) is a [[Romania]]n-born [[Germany|German]] novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the harsh conditions of life in [[Communist Romania]] under the repressive [[Nicolae Ceauşescu]] regime, the history of the Germans in the [[Banat]] (and more broadly, [[Transylvania]]), and the persecution of Romanian [[Germans of Romania|ethnic Germans]] by Stalinist Soviet occupying forces in Romania. Müller has been an internationally well-known author since the early 1990s, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/de/literaturnobelpreis-geht-an-herta-m%C3%BCller/a-4774078|title=Literaturnobelpreis geht an Herta Müller - DW - 08.10.2009|first=Deutsche|last=Welle (www.dw.com)|website=DW.COM}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos.html|title=Goethe-Institut Boston - Goethe-Institut USA|website=www.goethe.de}}</ref> She has received over 20 awards, including the 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. On 8 October 2009, it was announced she would be awarded the 2009 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]. == References == {{reflist}} {{Nobel Prize in Literature}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Herta}} [[Category:1953 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:German essayists]] [[Category:German