Herta Müller

Herta Müller is a novelist and poet that won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2009. She won this prize with the book "everything I posess I carry with me" it speaks about a boy of 17 years that is taken to a labour camp in Ukraine.It is a crilling and poetic story. Müller has been an internationally well-known author since the early 1990s, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages. All the books she has written speak about Ukraine in 1945, mostlly she obtained the information from her mather, who was witness of what hapened.

Müller was a member of a group of German-speaking writers in Romania who supported freedom of speech. After being refused permission to emigrate to West Germany in 1985, Müller was finally allowed to leave along with her husband, novelist Richard Wagner, in 1987, and they settled in West Berlin, where they still live. In the following years she accepted lectureships at universities in Germany and abroad. When Denis Scheck visited Múller at her home in Berlin he felt " he had entered the workshop of a true poet"

We decided to write about Müller because we wanted to write about a woman. In her books she shows the real life, the life that her family had and like this we can see that it was very difficult.