Herta Mueller - US Politics

Predicting the Nobel Literature Prize winner is near-impossible as the Swedish Academy stays tight-lipped and often honours writers off the beaten path -- so could it be Syrian poet Adonis this year?Each year the names of popular authors are tossed about -- US ...

A record five women were among the 13 people awarded Nobel Prizes, including a writer who depicted life behind the Iron Curtain and two American researchers who showed how chromosomes protect themselves from degrading.Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf on Thursday ...

The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature told Monday of how her fear of the communist regime in her native Romania inspired her to write.Herta Mueller used the lecture traditionally granted to literature laureates to explain that the ...

The names of the Nobel laureates often elicit surprise when they are revealed, but last-minute predictions that hit the bull's-eye have sparked suspicions of leaks by the institutes that hand out the awards.Last week, US President Barack Obama clinched the ...

STOCKHOLM/BERLIN (Reuters) - Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the Nobel literature prize on Thursday, saying Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal dictatorship compelled her to write of how a powerful few can dominate and destroy a nation.The Swedish Academy paid tribute to ...

Nobel literature prize goes to little-known European amid concern other regions ignoredThe judges, apparently, could not help themselves.Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too " Eurocentric," the winner for 2009 was Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born ...

German author Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work inspired by her life under Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania.The Nobel jury hailed Mueller, 56, as a writer who " "The permanent secretary of the Swedish ...

German author Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work inspired by her life under Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania.The Nobel jury hailed Mueller, 56, as a writer who " " The permanent secretary of the Swedish ...

Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prizeHerta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a ...

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Abuzz over Adonis for Nobel Literature Prize

Nobel Prizes honor a record 5 women in 2009

Fear of regime inspired Romanian Nobel winner

Nobel Prizes plagued by rumors of leaks

Chronicler of brutal dictatorship wins Nobel prize

Nobel lit prize goes to little-known European

Mueller wins Nobel for depictions of life under communism

Mueller wins Nobel Prize for depictions of life under communism

Herta Mueller wins Nobel Literature Prize

Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize

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