Herta Müller’s British publisher reacts to her having won the Nobel Prize for literature.
Details here, and I’ll see what I can find of hers in English today — maybe something I can blog about.
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Two Updates:
First, from an email I just got from Vladimir Tismaneanu, a colleague of Mr UD’s who knows Muller:
Harsh critic of Communist dictatorships in EE. As she put it, she lived for over 30 years in a dictatorship. This topic haunts her writing: fear, anxieties, courage, survival, dignity.
One of her best known novels, Der Konig veneigt sich und totet (The King Bows and Kills).
It’s a most appropriate decision twenty years after the fall of the Wall of Shame (the Berlin Wall), a tribute to all those who refused to bow…
And second, excerpts from an interview with her on Radio Romania.