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.