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Article: A lone voice beckoning
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
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In awarding Herta Muller the Nobel Prize for Literature the
committee has recognised a remarkable writer with a passion for
protest, writes EILEEN BATTERSBY , Literary Correspondent
THERE WILL be celebration; the awarding of this year's Nobel
Prize for Literature to the Romanian-born, Berlin-based Herta Muller
is an exciting example of the honour being paid to a passionate
artist of protest.
Muller is courageous and has summoned her surrealist imagination
to brilliant effect when exposing the horrors of totalitarianism.
Her finest work to date, The Land of Green Plums (Herztierin German)
was first published in Berlin in 1993. Poet Michael Hofmann's
magnificently atmospheric English ...