A remarkably candid and discomfiting interview with the Nobel Prize laureate, reflecting on a literary life defined by the brutality of Ceaucescu's regime.
Herta Müller was born on 17 August 1953 in Banat, Romania. In 1987, she emigrated to Germany and has lived in Berlin ever since. She is the author of The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment, The Hunger Angel and The Fox Was Ever the Hunter, among other works. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009.