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German Writer Herta Mueller Wins Nobel Literary Prize
World | October 8, 2009, Thursday // 13:58
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A file photograph dated 19 May 2005 showing Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller. It was announced on Stockholm, Sweden on 08 October 2009 that Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature. Photo by EPA/BGNES
German author Herta Mueller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, the academy in Stockholm has announced.
The Romanian-born writer follows last year's French winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, while British writer Doris Lessing won in 2007.
Mueller, born in 1953, is renowned for her depiction of the harsh conditions under Nicolae Ceausescu's regime.
The Swedish academy praised Mueller for both her poetry and prose.
It said the writer had an ability to "depict the landscape of the dispossessed" and writes "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose."
Mueller was born to a family from Romania's German minority and her mother was deported to a labour camp in the Soviet Union after World War II.
She emigrated to Germany in 1987, after being dismissed from her job in Romania during the 1970s due to her refusal to co-operate with the regime's secret police.
Her first collection of German language short stories, published in 1982, were censored in Romania.
Mueller's initial works were smuggled out of the country, while in later years she was awarded several literary prizes, including Ireland's Impac Award in 1998.
One of her later books, 2001's The Appointment, goes into great detail about living under a stagnated dictatorship.
The writer is awarded a prize of 10 million Swedish Kronor (GBP 892,000) along with the Nobel honor, which will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm later this year.
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