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Nobel Prize Winner Herta Mueller Inspired By Fear Of Dictatorship

AP | MALIN RISING | Posted 12.08.2009 | Books

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STOCKHOLM — The 2009 Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller said Monday she started writing when it was no longer possible to use spoken wo...

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The Last Poet To Win The Nobel Prize

John Lundberg | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

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I've been trying to track down English translations of poems by Herta Muller, the newest Nobel Laureate in Literature, but they are awfully hard to come by (if they even exist).

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Women Sweep Literature Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

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Is it an accident, the judging panels, a mini-trend or are the tides turning? With the sweep of this year's literary awards, all eyes are on the women...

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Herta Muller

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

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The judges, apparently, could not help themselves. Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too "Eurocentric,"...

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Herta Mueller Wins Nobel Prize In Literature

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

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The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this morning to Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German poet and novelist, "who," stated the Swedish Acad...

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