新鲜书市:德国小说家米勒荣获年诺贝尔文学奖
German Novelist Mueller Wins Literature Nobel Prize
Romanian-born German novelist Herta Mueller was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, praised for her portraits of life behind the Iron Curtain.
Mueller, whose body of work is heavily influenced by her life in Romania under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaucescu, is the 12th woman to win the prize and the first German-speaking author since 2004, when Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek was the recipient.
Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy hailed her depictions of 'the landscape of the dispossessed' with a 'the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose.'
'I am very surprised and still can not believe it,' Ms. Müller said in a statement released by her publisher in Germany, according to the Associated Press. 'I can't say anything more at the moment.'
Born in Romania in 1953, Mueller grew up there as part of a German speaking minority. Her father had served in the Waffen SS during World War II, and her mother was one of many Germans deported to the Soviet Union in 1945. Her latest novel 'Atemschaukel,' published this year, depicts the exile of German Romanians in the Soviet Union.
Though Mueller left Romania for Germany in 1987, she continued to wrestle with the themes of oppression and exile in her novels and poems. Her novel 'The Appointment,' published in the U.S. in 2001, portrays a young woman working in a clothes factory during Ceausescu's regime. 'Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger,' published in 1992, and 1999's 'The Land of the Green Plums' also offer portraits of the daily life in a soulless dictatorship.
出生于罗马尼亚的德国小说家赫塔•米勒(Herta Mueller)获得2009年诺贝尔文学奖，以表彰她对铁幕独裁统治下民众生活的描写。
米勒是第12位获得诺贝尔文学奖的女性，也是自2004年奥地利剧作家艾尔弗雷德•耶利内克(Elfriede Jelinek)以来首位获奖的德语文学家。米勒的作品明显受到她早年在罗马尼亚独裁者齐奥塞斯库(Nicolae Ceaucescu)统治下生活的影响。
瑞典皇家科学院(Swedish Academy)在斯德哥尔摩宣布获奖消息时说，米勒以“诗歌的精炼和散文的平实，描绘出了一幅底层社会的众生相”。
据美联社报导，米勒通过她在德国的出版商发表声明说，我非常意外，仍然不敢相信，现在我不知道还能说什么。
米勒1953年出生于罗马尼亚，作为说德语的少数民族在罗马尼亚长大。她父亲在二战期间曾参加德国党卫军(Waffen SS)，母亲是1945年被罗马尼亚流放到苏联的诸多德国人之一。米勒最新小说《呼吸钟摆》(Atemschaukel)于今年出版，描写了二战后德裔罗马尼亚人在苏联的流放遭遇。
尽管米勒1987年离开罗马尼亚定居德国，但她继续在小说和诗歌中探索着压迫和流亡的主题。她的小说《约定》(The Appointment) 2001年在美国出版，描述了一个年轻女性在齐奥塞斯库统治下一家服装厂工作的故事。米勒1992年出版的《那时狐狸就是猎人》(Even Back Then, the Fox Was the Hunter)和1999年出版的《风中绿李》(The Land of Green Plums)也描述了独裁统治下的民众生活。
