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Mueller's Nobel-Winning Memories Of A Small Town

Romanian-German writer Herta Mueller speaks during the Nobel Lecture in Literature on Monday in Stockholm. Claudio Bresciani/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Mueller's Nobel-Winning Memories Of A Small Town

Romanian novelist Herta Mueller was awarded the 2009 literature prize for her depictions of "the landscape of the dispossessed." Her first novel, Nadirs, has just been reissued. Critic Alan Cheuse has a review.

Mueller's Nobel-Winning Memories Of A Small Town

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Nobel Literature Prize Awarded To Herta Mueller

Herta Mueller, a member of Romania's ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, began writing as a young intellectual under the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Nobel Literature Prize Awarded To Herta Mueller

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