2009 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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Herta Müller | |
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Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Academy |
First awarded | 1901 |
Website | Official 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."[1] She is the ninth German-language writer to become a recipient of the prize after Günter Grass in 1999.[2]