The Hunger Angel, the new novel from 2009 Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller, is the harrowing story a young German youth of 17 and his five year imprisonment in a Soviet labor camp after the end of WWII ...

Fortunately, the Nobel Prize committee for literature has gotten it right when it’s recognized the courageous, sensual complexities of certain writers: William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Claude Simon ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. SURVIVORS of the 20th-century's barbaric concentration camps, Primo Levi and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn among them, have left behind searing ...

When Herta Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2009, she received the honour as a German writer, but her win, though a surprise for most Romanians, was celebrated in Bucharest's ...

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I’m wearing this T-shirt today to bring attention to World Food Day and Michael Kors’ #WatchHungerStop campaign. Sometimes it’s the smallest of gestures that can raise awareness about a situation that ...

All that I have I carry on me. Or: All that is mine I carry with me. I carried all I had, but it wasn't mine. Everything either came from someone else or wasn't what it was supposed to be. A ...

In the 1940s, Romanian Germans were ordered to help restore a damaged Soviet Union in labour camps, the theme taken by 2009 Nobel laureate Herta Müller in her latest novel, The Hunger Angel. Müller ...

One normally thinks of Germans as the ones who sent others to forced labor camps. But after World War II, millions of ethnic Germans fled or were expelled from Eastern Europe by the Soviets and their ...

Herta Müller, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2009, is the daughter of a German-Romanian SS veteran. She was born in Romania’s German-speaking region of Banat, where Nazi misrule was ...