I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented fourroom apartment with two additional families and their children. My memories from my childhood are centered on my father’s medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me. The hard conditions didn’t dampen my…

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French Le secrétaire perpétuel Communiqué de presse Le 8 octobre 2009 Prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2009 Herta Müller Le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2009 est attribué à l’auteur allemand Herta Müller « qui avec la concentration de la poésie et l’objectivé de la prose dessine les paysages de l’abandon ».

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 8 October 2009 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 Herta Müller The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to the German author Herta Müller “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”.

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English Biobibliographical notes Herta Müller was born on August 17, 1953 in the German-speaking town Nitzkydorf in Banat, Romania. Her parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania. Her father had served in the Waffen SS during World War II. Many German Romanians were deported to the Soviet Union in 1945, including Müller’s mother…

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English Presentation Speech by Professor Anders Olsson, Member of the , 10 December 2009. Professor Anders Olsson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Some literature reveals its deep qualities slowly, step by step. Other literature…