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Herta Müller

Also known as Herta Muller, H. Müller, H. Muller, H. Mueller

German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)

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Herta Müller is a female author from Romania who began her work period in 1976. She is associated with genres including German and Romanian literature, as well as German audiobooks. Her works are tagged with literature and audio books. She has been recognized in the Nobel Literature collection.

Müller has received one Nobel Prize. Her writing is referenced by 685 other encyclopedia articles. Various platforms list her works, with counts ranging from five to ninety-six. She has a recorded playcount of 6147 and 264 listeners on Last.fm. Similar artists include Max Frisch, Sibylle Berg, Alfred Döblin, David Foster Wallace, and Christa Wolf.

Born on 17 August 1953, she is also known for her quotes. These include statements about wanting to go to a place that did not know who she was, and observing that the world is not a costume ball. She has stated that she was her own thief and that words came out of nowhere to catch her.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature2009
“who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Herta
Family name: Müller
Gender: female
Citizenship: Romania
Place of birth: Nițchidorf
Occupation: essayist
Educated at: West University of Timișoara
Languages spoken: Romanian
Native language: German
Notable work: The Hunger Angel
Field of work: essay
Genre: essay
Image: Herta Müller Brucknerhaus Linz 2025 BHO-4188.jpg
Work location: Berlin
Residence: Berlin

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Commons category: Herta Müller
date of birth: 1953-08-17
member of: German Academy for Language and Literature
start of work period: 1976-00-00
name in native language: Herta Müller
writing language: German
nominated for: German Book Prize

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6 objects attributed to Herta Müller, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

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, 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.

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.

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