2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
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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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Herta Müller | ||||
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Location | Stockholm, Sweden | |||
Presented by | Swedish Academy | |||
First awarded | 1901 | |||
Website | Official website | |||
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