Herta Müller

Herta Müller was born in 1953 in Nițchidorf, a German-speaking village in the Romanian Banat, into a family of Banat Swabians: her father had served in the Waffen-SS, and her mother was deported in 1945 for several years to a Soviet labour camp. After studying German and Romanian in Timișoara, she became a translator in a machine factory, from which she was dismissed in 1979 for refusing to inform for the Securitate; she then taught in kindergartens. She left Romania in 1987 for West Germany and lives in Berlin. Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.

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• Short storiesNadirsNiederungenHerta Müller · 1982Literature