Herta Müller

Herta Müller

Herta Müller (German: [ˈhɛʁ.ta ˈmʏ.lɐ] (listen); born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Nițchidorf (German: Nitzkydorf), 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 twenty languages.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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herta Müller has received more than 363,596 page views. Her biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Herta Müller is the 456th most popular writer (down from 407th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Romania (down from 19th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Romanian Writer.

Herta Müller is most famous for her novel "The Land of Green Plums," which was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.