Müller signing one of her books in September 2009- Src:wikipedia

Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller has the won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature. The Nobel Prize Organisation says that Ms.Mueller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"

She has now become th fourth lady to be on Nobel Laureates list of 2009. The others are -Ada E. Yonath (Nobel Prize Chemistry) , Elizabeth H. Blackburn and  Carol W. Greider(Nobel Prize Medicine)

The 56-year-old author, who emigrated to Germany from then-Communist Romania in 1987, made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories titled “Niederungen,” which was promptly censored by the Romanian government. In 1984, an uncensored version was published in Germany and her work depicting life in a small, German-speaking village in Romania was devoured by readers.

Müller was married to another leading Romanian-German author, Richard Wagne.

The novels Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger (1992), Herztier (1994; The Land of Green Plums, 1996) and Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet (1997; The Appointment, 2001) give, with chiselled details, a portrait of daily life in a stagnated dictatorship. Müller has given guest lectures at universities, colleges and other venues in Paderborn, Warwick, Hamburg, Swansea, Gainsville (Florida), Kassel, Göttingen, Tübingen and Zürich among other places. She lives in Berlin. Since 1995 she has served as a member of Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, in Darmstadt.

Click here for Her Biography on Nobel Prize Website

"In the wake of atrocities perpetrated in the name of nation and race, individuals were forced to form their identities not only without but against these categories, erecting subtle defenses in the face of unrelenting oppression. The novels of Romanian-born writer Herta Muller have brought this struggle to life for ordinary men and women." - Jason M. Baskin, Chicago Review (Winter/2002)