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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009

"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
Herta Müller
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Herta Müller
Germany
b. 1953
(in Nitzkydorf, Banat, Romania)
 
 
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