German Writer Muller Nobel Prize Winner

Herta Muller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy described Muller as a writer "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossed." Muller emigrated to Germany in 1987 after years of censorship in her native Romania. She has written 20 books, but only 5 have been translated into English, including The Land of Green Plums and The Appointment.