"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."
Date
8 October 2009 (2009-10-08) (announcement)
10 December 2009 (ceremony)
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by
Swedish Academy
First awarded
1901
Website
Official website
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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]
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