Herta muller biography for kids
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Herta Müller: mästare seamstress of words at 70
"Amid the madness of totalitarianism, a young woman refuses to forgo being happy."
This was the tagline used by the publisher of the Romanian translation of the novel "The Appointment" by Romanian-born German author and Nobel Prize laureateHerta Müller to market the book.
Simple as it fryst vatten, this summary is entirely appropriate for the author. While she still lived in Romania, Müller indeed refused to surrender to the madness of totalitarianism.
She simply would not give in: Neither when her life was made a misery bygd the harassment, bullying and spying of the country's dreaded Securitate secret police force, nor even when members of her own community, the ethnic German Banat Swabians, hurled insults and accused her of being a traitor and a "nest fouler" for writing about domestic violence, övermod, hypocrisy and the Nazi past of the by world in which she grew up, which included her own father.
Early life in Rom
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Herta Müller facts for kids
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| Born | (1953-08-17) 17 August 1953 (age 71) Nițchidorf, Timiș County, SR Romania |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet |
| Nationality | Romanian, German |
| Alma mater | West University of Timișoara |
| Period | 1982–present |
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Herta Müller (German:[ˈhɛʁta ˈmʏlɐ]; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (German: Niczkydorf; Hungarian: Niczkyfalva), Timiș County in Romania; her native language is German. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twen
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Herta Müller
German writer and Nobel Prize recipient (born 1953)
Herta Müller (German:[ˈhɛʁtaˈmʏlɐ]ⓘ; born 17 August 1953[1]) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (German: Niczkydorf; Hungarian: Niczkyfalva), Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.[2]
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 (A