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Herta Müller

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Herta Müller (German: [ˈhɛʁta ˈmʏlɐ] ; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (German: Niczkydorf; Hungarian: Niczkyfalva), Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages. Müller is noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of the Socialist Republic of Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceaușescu regime which she has experienced herself. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herta Müller is the 261st most popular writer (up from 355th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Romania (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Writer.

Herta Müller is most famous for her novel "The Land of Green Plums," which was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Herta Müller ranks 261 out of 7,302. Before her are Joseph Heller, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, J. K. Rowling, Alcaeus of Mytilene, and Primo Levi. After her are Dale Carnegie, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jordanes, Bartolomé de las Casas, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and Anna Akhmatova.

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Among people born in 1953, Herta Müller ranks 6. Before her are Xi Jinping, Richard Stallman, Brigitte Macron, Zico, and Moon Jae-in. After her are Jerome Powell, Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Tony Blair.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Herta Müller ranks 14 out of 844. Before her are Alaric I (376), Emil Cioran (1911), John Hunyadi (1407), Tristan Tzara (1896), Ion Antonescu (1882), and Béla IV of Hungary (1206). After her are Mircea Eliade (1907), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Radu cel Frumos (1438), Constantin Brâncuși (1876), Vlad II Dracul (1395), and Paul Celan (1920).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Herta Müller ranks 3. Before her are Eugène Ionesco (1909), and Tristan Tzara (1896). After her are Paul Celan (1920), Elie Wiesel (1928), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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