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Romanian-born German writer Herta
Mueller leaves her apartment after she had won the 2009 Nobel literature
prize in Berlin, October 8, 2009. Mueller, who charted the brutality and
oppressiveness of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship, was lost for words
when she learnt she had won the 2009 Nobel literature prize. Mueller is
known for works such as "The Land of Green Plums" which she dedicated to
Romanian friends killed under Ceausescu's Communist rule and "The
Appointment" in which a Romanian woman sews notes saying "Marry Me" into
suits of men bound for Italy.
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STOCKHOLM,
Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- German author Herta Muller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in
Literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.
The Academy cited Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as
"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the
landscape of the dispossessed."
This was
the fourth of the prestigious Nobel Prizes handed out this year, with awards in
chemistry, physics and medicine made in the past three days.
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A man reads the latest book
"Atemschaukel" of German writer Herta Mueller in a Berlin book shop,
October 8, 2009. Mueller, a Romanian-born writer who produced tales of the
disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for
literature on Thursday.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)
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The
Nobel Prizes have been awarded annually since 1901 to those who " conferred the
greatest benefit on mankind during the preceding year."
The annual Nobel Prizes are usually announced in
October and are handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of
Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite.
Each prize consists of a medal, a personal diploma
and a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (1.4 million U.S. dollars).
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German writer Herta Mueller arrives for
a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Herta
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 nod to the 20th
anniversary of communism's collapse.
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