Herta muller biography for kids
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Herta Müller: Master seamstress of words at 70
"Amid the madness of totalitarianism, a young woman refuses to forgo being happy."
This was the tagline used by the publisher of the Romanian translation of the novel "The Appointment" by Romanian-born German author and Nobel Prize laureateHerta Müller to market the book.
Simple as it is, this summary is entirely appropriate for the author. While she still lived in Romania, Müller indeed refused to surrender to the madness of totalitarianism.
She simply would not give in: Neither when her life was made a misery by the harassment, bullying and spying of the country's dreaded Securitate secret police force, nor even when members of her own community, the ethnic German Banat Swabians, hurled insults and accused her of being a traitor and a "nest fouler" for writing about domestic violence, hubris, hypocrisy and the Nazi past of the village world in which she grew up, which included her own father.
Early life in Rom
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Herta Müller
The Best Poem Of Herta Müller
Colour Grey
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I grow time, beans, the colour gray
And stitch the shadows of a dying day
They make a woman, rather a girl
Lost in the ocean like a grain of pearl
The swans of Coole fly over me
Will they rest for a while by me!
Maybe it's my turn now.
Deep in the frost where my eyes shall never go
The leopard will print his paw
And with a sudden leap break free
All the chimes of poetry
Maybe it's my turn now.
The rough beast was never born
Though we devised a cage for his morn
Maybe it's my turn now.
I have a tale to tell I shall also ring the bell
When you start believing
When you start hearing
Maybe it's my turn now.
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These days I don't think of you
But after the soot covers me
I begin to wonder where those
Evenings have gone, those wanderings
In the spacious lawns of enchantment
That smacked of no design, though
We were bent on making a sense
The early birds get their worms
I lie in the tireless ticking of my old watch
Cou
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Herta Müller facts for kids
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| Born | (1953-08-17) 17 August 1953 (age 71) Nițchidorf, Timiș County, SR Romania |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet |
| Nationality | Romanian, German |
| Alma mater | West University of Timișoara |
| Period | 1982–present |
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Herta Müller (German:[ˈhɛʁta ˈmʏlɐ]; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (German: Niczkydorf; Hungarian: Niczkyfalva), Timiș County in Romania; her native language fryst vatten German. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twen