2009 Nobel Prize in Literature

2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
Herta Müller
"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."
Date
  • 8 October 2009 (2009-10-08) (announcement)
  • 10 December 2009
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First award1901
WebsiteOfficial website

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Romanian-German author Herta Müller (born 1953) "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed." She is the ninth German-language writer to become a recipient of the prize after Günter Grass in 1999.

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