新鮮書市:德國小說家米勒榮獲年諾貝爾文學獎
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.
出生於羅馬尼亞的德國小說家赫塔•米勒(Herta Mueller)獲得2009年諾貝爾文學獎，以表彰她對鐵幕獨裁統治下民衆生活的描寫。
米勒是第12位獲得諾貝爾文學獎的女性，也是自2004年奧地利劇作家艾爾弗雷德•耶利內克(Elfriede Jelinek)以來首位獲獎的德語文學家。米勒的作品明顯受到她早年在羅馬尼亞獨裁者齊奧塞斯庫(Nicolae Ceaucescu)統治下生活的影響。
瑞典皇家科學院(Swedish Academy)在斯德哥爾摩宣佈獲獎消息時說，米勒以“詩歌的精煉和散文的平實，描繪出了一幅底層社會的衆生相”。
據美聯社報導，米勒通過她在德國的出版商發表聲明說，我非常意外，仍然不敢相信，現在我不知道還能說什麼。
米勒1953年出生於羅馬尼亞，作爲說德語的少數民族在羅馬尼亞長大。她父親在二戰期間曾參加德國黨衛軍(Waffen SS)，母親是1945年被羅馬尼亞流放到蘇聯的諸多德國人之一。米勒最新小說《呼吸鐘擺》(Atemschaukel)於今年出版，描寫了二戰後德裔羅馬尼亞人在蘇聯的流放遭遇。
儘管米勒1987年離開羅馬尼亞定居德國，但她繼續在小說和詩歌中探索着壓迫和流亡的主題。她的小說《約定》(The Appointment) 2001年在美國出版，描述了一個年輕女性在齊奧塞斯庫統治下一家服裝廠工作的故事。米勒1992年出版的《那時狐狸就是獵人》(Even Back Then, the Fox Was the Hunter)和1999年出版的《風中綠李》(The Land of Green Plums)也描述了獨裁統治下的民衆生活。
