Romanian Woman Wins 2009 Nobel Literature Prize.

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Herta Muller, a 56-year-old Romanian-born author, persecuted for her depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature. Muller, a member of Romania's ethnic German minority, was honored for work that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."