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Herta Mueller’s win is announced<\/p>\n
German author Herta Mueller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, the academy in Stockholm has announced.<\/p>\n
The Romanian-born writer follows last year’s French winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, while British writer Doris Lessing won in 2007.<\/p>\n
Mueller, born in 1953, is renowned for her depiction of the harsh conditions under Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime.<\/p>\n
The Swedish academy praised Mueller for both her poetry and prose.<\/p>\n
Literary prizes<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Her first collection of German language short stories, published in 1982, were censored in Romania.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
One of her later books, 2001’s The Appointment, goes into great detail about living under a stagnated dictatorship.<\/p>\n
Only a few of the author’s works have been translated into English, including The Passport (1986), The Land of Green Plums (1994) and The Appointment.<\/p>\n
Mueller will receive a prize of 10 million Swedish Kronor (\u00a3892,000) along with her Nobel honour, which will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm later this year.
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