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Herta Müller Nobel Prize for literature

she recounted the dictatorship in Romania

The Romanian writer Herta Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. According to the Academy "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, she depicts the landscape of the dispossessed".
The author, 57 years old, is from the Svevian Banat, a culturally and linguistically German region handed over to Romania after World War Two. Her mother had been a prisoner inside the Gulag for five years, her father was a Nazi who had served in the SS. Herta departs from the heavy paternal heritage, but not from the Romanian language which she starts learning at age 15. She studies German literature in Timisoara and begins writing when the power is in the hands of Ceaușescu.
Very well-known in Germany, before receiving the Nobel prize she was awarded with many honors. Among her works, Atemschaukel, The Land of Green Plums, Traveling on One Leg.


Her first tales book, Nadirs, is published with many censor cuts. She is persecuted by the regime because she refused to join the secret police, Securitate; she is fired (from a post of translator from German) and to survive she gives private lessons and works as a babysitter. With her husband she manages to flee to West Germany.
In the Securitate files she was defined as "a dangerous enemy of the State, to fight". In her pages one can find the remembrances of a daily life oppressed by the Communist regime. She herself declared: "Nowadays I feel free, but the things that happened didn't disappear in my head... I have always wanted to write how a dictatorship is established, what can happen when a small group of powerful dominates over a Country and the Country vanishes, only the State remains".

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