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Herta Müller

Herta Müller studied at West University of Timișoara. The recorded working language is German and Romanian. The field of work recorded is poetry and essay.

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German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist Herta Müller at a reading in the Brucknerhaus in Linz , Austria

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Subjects and genres recorded for the work are essay. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Employment is recorded with Freie Universität Berlin and Nikolaus Lenau High School. Works named in the authority record are Nadirs, The Passport, The Land of Green Plums and The Hunger Angel. Work by Herta Müller is recorded in the collections of Herta Müller Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS. Distinctions recorded are Nobel Prize in Literature, Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn-Förderpreis, Premiul UTC la secțiunea „lucrări în limbile naționalităților conlocuitoare" and Aspekte-Literaturpreis. Institutional cataloguing adds that herta Müller is recorded as writer, linguist, poet, translator and novelist. Institutional cataloguing adds that herta Müller was born in 1953 at Nițchidorf.

Herta Müller studied at West University of Timișoara. The recorded working language is German and Romanian.

The field of work recorded is poetry and essay. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are essay.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Employment is recorded with Freie Universität Berlin and Nikolaus Lenau High School.

Works named in the authority record are Nadirs, The Passport, The Land of Green Plums and The Hunger Angel.

Work by Herta Müller is recorded in the collections of Herta Müller Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS.

Distinctions recorded are Nobel Prize in Literature, Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn-Förderpreis, Premiul UTC la secțiunea „lucrări în limbile naționalităților conlocuitoare" and Aspekte-Literaturpreis.

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Herta Müller is recorded as having received Nobel Prize in Literature, Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn-Förderpreis and Premiul UTC la secțiunea „lucrări în limbile naționalităților conlocuitoare".

Herta Müller, poet, Nobel Laureate 2009

Herta Müller, poet, Nobel Laureate 2009

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Verleihung des Heinrich-Böll-Preises an die Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Herta Müller durch Kölns Oberbürgermeisterin Henriette Reker in der Piazetta des Historischen Rathauses in Köln

Verleihung des Heinrich-Böll-Preises an die Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Herta Müller durch Kölns Oberbürgermeisterin Henriette Reker in der Piazetta des Historischen Rathauses in Köln

Raimond Spekking · © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

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Herta Müller is recorded with the gender female. Institutional cataloguing adds that herta Müller was born on 17 August 1953.

Herta Müller worked at Berlin. Classed in the genre essay.

It is also recorded that herta Müller is recorded as human. Institutional cataloguing adds that herta Müller is recorded with the occupation writer. It is also recorded that herta Müller is recorded with the occupation linguist.

Herta Müller is recorded with the occupation poet. It is also recorded that herta Müller is recorded with the occupation translator. Institutional cataloguing adds that herta Müller is recorded with the occupation novelist. It is also recorded that herta Müller is recorded with the occupation essayist.

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This entry is compiled from 13 catalogued sources across 8 independent registers. The registers consulted are Crossref registry, Internet Archive, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, The Art Institute of Chicago, DOAJ, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and Wellcome Collection. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.

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