Herta Muller Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

The Swedish Academy described Herta Muller's work to the Associated Press as the "concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."

The award was announced in Stockholm on Thursday. Muller, 56, emigrated from Romania to Germany in 1987 because many of her works were censored in her native country. She has written often of corruption and intolerance under the Nicolae Ceausescu's regime.

Some of her works like, "The Passport," "The Land of Green Plums," "Traveling on One Leg" and "The Appointment" have been translated from German to English, French, and Spanish.

The award ceremony is planned for December in Stockholm, Sweden. Muller will receive about $1.4 million (10 million Swedish kronor). Muller follows 2008 French winner Jean-Marie Gusttave Le Clezio and 2007 British writer Doris Lessing. She is the 12th female to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.