by Julia Gray Born to ethnic German parents in Romania in 1953, Herta Mueller emigrated to Germany in 1987 after refusing to cooperate with Securitate. In May of this year, her novel The Land of Green Plums (Granta, London, 1998) (first published in German as Herztier, [Rowohlt Verlag, Munich, 1993]) a portrait of life under Nicolae Ceausescu’s rule, was awarded […]
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