Thaindian News

By Meena Kar,
October 9, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Herta Mueller, German novelist born in Romania has won the Nobel Prize in literature for her work which portrayed persecution and daily life of people behind Iron Curtain. In the 109 years history of Nobel Prize, Mueller is only the twelfth women to be honored with this prize. After Elfriede Jelinek, she is first German speaking author to receive the Nobel Prize.

As stated by the sources, major part of Herta Mueller’s writing was influenced by the life she had spent under Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship in Romania. From a very close point, the writer had witnessed life’s dark sides under Romanian dictator Nicole Ceausescu. Swedish Academy had declared the name of Mueller as Nobel Prize recipient on Thursday.

It is stated that the works of Mueller has got “the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose.” One might consider Mueller’s sensibility to be bleak but her detailing of fiction have the ability of whipping the bleak sensibilities alive. The Land of The Green Plums, another novel of Mueller published in US in 1996 by the Metropolitan Books was also extremely appealing. In this book, the author had described the life of young and poor college girls of Romania in the room of her dormitory. She described how these girls tried to make themselves appear beautiful without using any Western make up.

Many a times, it happened that the recipients of the Nobel Prize were authors known to a group of Americans. Herta Meuller is not such a name. Her books are quite popular among the masses. She has penned twenty books and five of them were translated to English. Mueller was overwhelmed after becoming the recipient of the Nobel Prize.