The Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2009, as announced Today the Swedish Academy, which was first broadcast live on YouTube.com the jury's verdict. Müller (born 1953), is a poet and novelist. His work depicts the life in Romania under the tyranny of the dictator Ceausescu. The prize, worth about one million euros, Müller acknowledges his ability to describe "the landscape of the dispossessed." In Spain have published several of his works, including lowland and Man is a great pheasant in the world (both in Siruela), The Beast of the heart (Mondadori) and fox skin (Plaza & Janes).
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The work of Nobel Prize Herta Müller Literature largely embodies the fate of German minorities in the countries of central Europe after the end of World War II, often had to pay double the guilt of National Socialism. The writer, who lives in Berlin since 1987, was born in Nytzkydorf (Romania) in 1953 and in a family of German minority in that country, which belonged to other iconic writers like Paul Celan or German Oskar Pastior, and treated very early to build bridges between the two cultures to which they belonged.
Herta Müller studied Germanic philology and philology Romanian simultaneously seeking to understand knowledge of the two literatures to which they felt they belonged. With the Romanian official, ruled by dictator Nicolai Ceacescu, clashed soon to be fired from her first job as a translator at an engineering factory for refusing to collaborate with the Securitate, the secret service of communist Romania.
His first book, Niederungen (In the lowlands), was also a cause of conflict. The manuscript rested for four years in the editorial before it finally could be published in 1982, with cuts imposed by the Romanian censorship. Two years later, the original version of the book appeared in Germany, to what authorities Romanian Herta Müller reacted by imposing a ban on publishing. In Germany, however, earned him recognition Niederungen immediate literary novel Aspekte received the award for the best German-language debut of the year. In that book, consisting of a long narrative of some eighty pages and other short stories, Müller focused, with boyish look, the life of a German village lost in Romania.
is a rundown town both economically and morally. "We do not support others or we ourselves endure and others do not support us," he says at some point the voice of the girl who narrates the story. History Herta Müller counts Niederungen is largely a history of permanent repression and isolation that family life begins and continues with the relations of individuals to the state. Everyday descriptions are mixed with stories from popular superstitions and legends that made at the time how to remember the critical literature Friedrich Christian Delius resources used by the Mexican Juan Rulfo Pedro Páramo.
Niederungen had destroyed the chances of Herta Müller's literary career but opened in Romania, by contrast, all doors in Germany. In 1987 the writer managed to leave Romania and moved to Berlin, where he lives and works since then. The Ceacescu Romania - and the fate of the German minority there, is the subject of much of their work. In Der Mensch ist ein auf der Welt ardous Fasan (Man is a great pheasant in the world) addresses the fate of a German family who anxiously awaited permission to leave Romania. In his latest novel, Atemschaukel, tells the story of a boy of 17 years after World War II is taken by the Russians to help in a labor camp for the reconstruction of the Soviet Union in a shared destiny that many members of the German minority. The Russians believed that this the Germans paid for their sins as accomplices of Hitler, not to mention that some of them had been victims of Nazism.
In Atemschaukel, for example, there is a character, David Lommer, who is Jewish and yet also ends in the field working with other members of the German minority. Atemschaukel is the attempt by Herta Müller unravel what was behind the silence of his mother, and many other Romanian-alkanes of his generation, who never dared to speak who had spent time in Soviet labor camps.
With his mother, Herta Müller could never talk about it but if it did with the poet Oskar Pastior that had been in a labor camp and even the two writers came to consider the possibility of writing a book together on the issue. The project was interrupted by the sudden death of Pastior, in 2006 when he had just received the Georg Büchner Prize, given what Müller decided to take their conversations with the poet, and others who had the same experience, to address the issue novel form.
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