Herta Müller
Born in 1953
Fiction
Poetry
Herta Müller is a German-Romanian author born in 1953 to Swabian farmers in Romania.
She studied German and Romanian literature before working as a translator.
Müller faced persecution from the communist regime for refusing to cooperate with the secret police.
In 1987, she emigrated to Germany with her husband.
Müller's writing often draws on her experiences growing up as part of the German minority in Romania and living under a repressive regime.
She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009 for her depictions of life under totalitarianism.
