Herta Mueller wins Nobel for Literature (Lead)
October 8th, 2009 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANSStockholm, Oct 8 (DPA) Romanian-born Herta Mueller of Germany has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm Thursday.
The Academy’s citation said that “with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, (she) depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.”
She was born Aug 17, 1953, in the German-speaking town of Nitzydorf, Romania. Four of her works have been translated into English.
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