Nadirs (autobiography)
1982 Kriterion (Bucharest) edition | |
| Author | Herta Müller |
|---|---|
| Original title | Niederungen |
| Translator | Sieglinde Lug |
| Language | German |
| Genre | Short story, autobiography |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press (US) |
Publication date | 1982 |
| Publication place | Romania |
Published in English | 1999 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 118 p. (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-8032-8254-4 (paperback edition) |
Nadirs (German: Niederungen) is a collection of largely autobiographical short stories by Romanian-German writer and Nobel laureate Herta Müller. The stories center on life in the Romanian countryside.
The book was first released in Romania in 1982, where it received a prize awarded by the Central Committee of the Union of Communist Youth. A supposedly uncensored version, missing four chapters of the Romanian version, was smuggled to Germany and released in 1984.