Herta Muller Books

Müller was born on August 17, 1953 in western Romania to parents from a German-speaking minority. Her father was in the Nazi SS during World War II and her mother was deported by Romanian communists to a concentration camp in the Soviet Union after the war. Mueller was fired from her first job as a translator after she refused to work for former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's special police. And she decided to devote her life to literature. Censorship in the Romanian system banned her first short story collection, which was published in 1982 under the name "Nedrongen" and was published in English under the name "Naders". The novel was not fully published until two years later in Germany, after it was smuggled out of the country. Müller spoke about the exile of Germans to the Soviet Union in her latest novel "Swinging of the Soul", which was published in 2009. Müller fled Romania to Germany in 1987 after being banned from publishing her writings in her country, after which she was fully discovered in the world of literature. Among her most famous novels are "The Passport", which was published in 1986 in Germany and translated in 1989, and "The Date", published in 2001, describing the anxiety experienced by a woman after she was summoned by the State Security Directorate. Ioan Maskovescu, the mayor of the village of Nichdorf, from which Müller hails, said that the house in which she was born is now state property, but she still owns and inherited land there, although she has never visited. Muller described the former Romanian dictator Ceausescu in an article published in the newspaper "Frankfurter Rundschau" in 2007 as "a graceful modernizer who uses taps and cutlery made of gold and has a special vulnerability to palaces." She said Romania had suffered a "collective amnesia" of its oppressive past. She said that Romanian residents "pretend that that past is gone, that the whole country suffers from collective amnesia," and added, "(Romania) was the home of the most powerful tyrants in Eastern Europe and the most evil after Stalin, (Ceausescu) created for himself the images of a hero parallel to what is happening in Korea North". She is best known for her literary works that convey the difficult conditions of life in Romania under the rule of former Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. Among her most important works: Depressions (a collection of short stories) - Publication year: 1984 Germany (first published in Romania in 1982 after many paragraphs were deleted by the Romanian censorship) Novel (1982) - Publication year 1984 Passport - Publication year 1986 Traveling on One leg - Publication year 1989 The devil is reflected in the mirror - Publication year 1991 The fox is already the hunter - Publication year 1992 Hot potatoes are the warm bed - Publication year 1992 Hunger and Silk (articles) - Publication year 1995 Date - Publication year 2001 The King Kneels and Kills - Year Publication 2003 The Pale Men and Coffee Cups - Year of publication 2009 The swing of the soul Atemschaukel - Year of publication 2009 Immer derselbe Schnee und immer derselbe Onkel Year of publication 2011 Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen Year of publication 2012.