Herta Müller

Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist, poet and essayist whose work often draws on the German minority in Romania under Nicolae Ceaușescu's repressive regime, which she lived through herself. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. Her novels include The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment and The Passport, and The Hunger Angel follows the deportation of Romania's German minority to Soviet Gulags.