By Rosie Blau and Frederick Studemann
Published: October 8 2009 14:29 | Last updated: October 8 2009 20:01
Herta Müller, an ethnic German who fled Ceausescu dictatorship in Romania, on Thursday won the Nobel Prize for literature for her stories presenting “the landscape of the dispossessed”.
“My writing was always about how a dictatorship arises, how a situation is able to occur where a handful of powerful people dominate a country and the country disappears, and there is only the state left,” Ms Müller said on Thursday.
Mueller, whose mother was sent to a Soviet work camp for five years and who herself was harassed by the Romanian Securitate secret police after refusing to be an informer, made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories.
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