Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009, announced October 8, 2009. Herta Müller, “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”. Herta Müller: born 1953, Nitzkydorf, Banat, Romania. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).