Herta Müller (1953- )

Awarded the Prize “for her piece depicts the lscape of the dispossessed with the concentration of poetry the frankness of prose.”

Herta Müller is a German novelist, poet essayist who was born in Nitchidorf Romania on 17 August 1953. She migrated to German in 1987 is Academician in German Academy of Science.
Major Works:
Niederungen (Lowls) (1982); Reisende auf einem Bein (Traveller on one leg) (1989); Herztier (Animal Heart) (1994); Atemschaukel (Everything I possess) (2009)