Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She writes in German and her works often depict the effects of violence under Romania's communist regime. Many of her novels are told from the perspective of the German minority in Romania and depict the modern history of Germans in the Banat and Transylvania regions. Her 2009 book The Hunger Angel portrays the deportation of Romania's German population to Soviet Gulags during World War II.
3. Presentation of Romanian literature
Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist,
poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel
Prize in Literature. Her native language is
German. Since the early 1990s, she has been
internationally established, and her works have
been translated into more than twenty languages.
4. Presentation of Romanian literature
Müller is noted for her works depicting the effects
of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the
setting of the Socialist Republic of Romania
under the repressive Nicolae Ceaușescu regime
which she has experienced herself. Many of her
works are told from the viewpoint of the German
minority in Romania and are also a depiction of
the modern history of the Germans in the Banat
and Transylvania. Her much acclaimed 2009
novel The Hunger Angel (Atemschaukel) portrays
the deportation of Romania's German minority to
Soviet Gulags during the Soviet occupation of
Romania for use as German forced labour.