- German author and essayist.
- Herta Müller was born in communist Romania in Nitzkydorf, traditionally a German-speaking town with inhabitants of German descent (Banat Swabians). She emigrated and became a West-German citizen in 1987.
- Herta Müller has been the recipient of the 'Marieluise-Fleißer Prize' (1990), the 'Kranichsteiner Literary Prize' (1991), the 'Kleist Prize' (1994), the European Literary Prize 'Aristeion' (1995), the 'Carl-Zuckmayer-Medal' (2002), the 'Berliner Literature Prize' (2005), the 'Heinrich Böll Prize' (2015), the 'Friedrich Hölderin Prize' (2015) and over 30 more awards and honors.
- In 2009 Herta Müller won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- In 2012 Herta Müller received an honorary doctorate from the Paderborn University (Germany), the Swansea University (UK) and the Dickinson College in Carlisle (USA).
- In 2010 Herta Müller received an honorary doctorate from the Seoul Women's University (Korea).
- Herta Müller was born a Banat Swabian, which is an ethnic German minority living since centuries in Romania.
- Lives in Berlin-Friedenau, Germany.
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