Herta Müller

Herta Müller (alizaliwa 17 Agosti 1953) ni mwandishi kutoka nchi ya Romania aliyetumia lugha ya Kijerumani. Mwaka wa 2009 alikuwa mshindi wa Tuzo ya Nobeli ya Fasihi.

Herta Müller (2019)

Alizaliwa Nițchidorf, Kaunti ya Timiș, Romania. Toka mwanzoni mwa miaka ya 1990, alijulikana duniani kote na kazi zake kutafsririwa kwa zaidi ya lugha ishirini.^[1]

Müller anajulikana kwa kazi zake zilizoonyesha madhara ya ukandamizaji na unyama hasa wakati wa Jamhuri ya Kisoshalisti ya Romania chini ya uongozi wa kidikteta wa Nicolae Ceaușescu. Kazi zake nyingi ziliandikwa kwa mtazamo wa Wajerumani wa Romania na pia kuhusu historia ya sasa ya Wajerumani wanaoishi Banat na Transylvania. Kitabu chake maarufu cha mwaka 2009 The Hunger Angel (Atemschaukel) kinazungumzia kufukuzwa kwa Wajerumani toka Romania kwenda kwenye jela za kazi ngumu Urusi wakati Urusi ilipoitawala Romani.

Müller amepokea zaidi ya tuzo ishirini hadi hivi sasa, ikiwemo ni pamoja na Kleist Prize (1994), Aristeion Prize (1995), International Dublin Literary Award (1998) na Franz Werfel Human Rights Award (2009). Oktoba 8, 2009, Swedish Academy ilimtangaza kuwa mshindi wa Tuzo ya Nobeli ya Fasihi.

Kazi

Nadhari

Müller signing one of her books in September 2009

• Niederungen, (short stories), censored version published in Bucharest, 1982. Uncensored version published in Germany 1984. (Published in English as Nadirs in 1999 by the University of Nebraska Press)^[2]
• Drückender Tango ("Oppressive Tango"), stories, Bucharest, 1984
• Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt, Berlin, 1986. (Published in English as The Passport, Serpent's Tail, 1989)
• Barfüßiger Februar ("Barefoot February"), Berlin, 1987
• Reisende auf einem Bein, Berlin, 1989. Published in English as Traveling on One Leg, Hydra Books/Northwestern University Press, 1998.^[3]
• Wie Wahrnehmung sich erfindet ("How Perception Invents Itself"), Paderborn, 1990
• Der Teufel sitzt im Spiegel ("The Devil is Sitting in the Mirror"), Berlin, 1991
• Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger (published as "The Fox Was Ever the Hunter" in English), Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1992
• Eine warme Kartoffel ist ein warmes Bett ("A Warm Potato Is a Warm Bed"), Hamburg, 1992
• Der Wächter nimmt seinen Kamm ("The Guard Takes His Comb"), Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1993
• Angekommen wie nicht da ("Arrived As If Not There"), Lichtenfels, 1994
• Herztier, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1994. Published in an English translation by Michael Hofmann as The Land of Green Plums, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1996^[4]
• Hunger und Seide ("Hunger and Silk"), essays, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1995
• In der Falle ("In a Trap"), Göttingen 1996
• Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1997. Published in English as The Appointment, Metropolitan Books/Picador, New York/London, 2001
• Der fremde Blick oder Das Leben ist ein Furz in der Laterne ("The Foreign View, or Life Is a Fart in a Lantern"), Göttingen, 1999
• Heimat ist das, was gesprochen wird ("Home Is What Is Spoken There"), Blieskastel, 2001
• A Good Person Is Worth as Much as a Piece of Bread, foreword to Kent Klich's Children of Ceausescu, published by Journal, 2001 and Umbrage Editions, 2001.
• Der König verneigt sich und tötet ("The King Bows and Kills"), essays, Munich (and elsewhere), 2003
• Atemschaukel, Munich, 2009 (The Hunger Angel, Metropolitan Books, 2012)^[5]
• Immer derselbe Schnee und immer derselbe Onkel, 2011

Ushairi

• Im Haarknoten wohnt eine Dame ("A Lady Lives in the Hair Knot"), Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2000
• Die blassen Herren mit den Mokkatassen ("The Pale Gentlemen with their Espresso Cups"), Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, 2005
• Este sau nu este Ion ("Is He or Isn't He Ion"), collage-poetry written and published in Romanian, Iași, Polirom, 2005
• Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen ("Father is calling the Flies"), Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, 2012
• Father's on the Phone with the Flies: A Selection , Seagull Books, Munich, 2018 (73 collage poems with reproductions of originals)

Mhariri

• Theodor Kramer: Die Wahrheit ist, man hat mir nichts getan ("The Truth Is No One Did Anything to Me"), Vienna 1999
• Die Handtasche ("The Purse"), Künzelsau 2001
• Wenn die Katze ein Pferd wäre, könnte man durch die Bäume reiten ("If the Cat Were a Horse, You Could Ride Through the Trees"), Künzelsau 2001

Filamu

• 1993: Vulpe – vânător (Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger), directed by Stere Gulea, starring Oana Pellea, Dorel Vișan, George Alexandru etc.

Tuzo

• 1981 Adam-Müller-Guttenbrunn Sponsored Prize the Temeswar Literature Circle
• 1984 Aspekte Literature Prize
• 1985 Rauris Literature Prize
• 1985 Encouragement Prize of the Literature Award of Bremen
• 1987 Ricarda-Huch Prize of Darmstadt
• 1989 Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis of Ingolstadt
• 1989 German Language Prize, together with Gerhardt Csejka, Helmuth Frauendorfer, Klaus Hensel, Johann Lippet, Werner Söllner, William Totok, Richard Wagner
• 1990 Roswitha Medal of Knowledge of Bad Gandersheim
• 1991 Kranichsteiner Literature Prize
• 1993 Critical Prize for Literature
• 1994 Kleist Prize
• 1995 Aristeion Prize
• 1995/96 City-writer of Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim
• 1997 Literature Prize of Graz
• 1998 Ida-Dehmel Literature Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award for The Land of Green Plums
• 2001 Cicero Speaker Prize
• 2002 Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille of Rhineland-Palatinate
• 2003 Joseph-Breitbach Prize (together with Christoph Meckel and Harald Weinrich)
• 2004 Literature Prize of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
• 2005 Berlin Literature Prize
• 2006 Würth Prize for European Literature und Walter-Hasenclever Literature Prize
• 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
• 2009 Franz Werfel Human Rights Award, in particular for her novel Everything I Possess I Carry With Me^[6]
• 2010 Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize
• 2013 Best Translated Book Award, shortlist, The Hunger Angel^[7]