William
Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with
their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
William
Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with ST Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature
with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009
Herta Müller
Born: 17 August 1953, Nitzkydorf, Banat, Romania
Residence at the time of the award: Germany
Prize motivation: "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
A Life under Dictatorship
Herta Müller is a German-Romanian writer. In her twenties, she
worked as a translator in a machine factory, but had to stop when the
Romanian secret police wanted her as a spy. Her first book 'Niederungen'
(1982, English title: 'Nadirs') dates from this period, but was
censored in Romania. In 1987 she emigrated to Germany. Herta Müller
writes short stories, novels, poems and essays, but all her work deals
with the experience of oppression, of exile and of conforming to family
and state.
