"Mueller was praised by the Nobel judges as a writer "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed." Her collection of short stories, "Niederungen" (or "Nadirs" ), was smuggled in the 1980s from Romania to Germany, where she won an audience eager to hear her descriptions of life under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Her honor comes on the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism."

damn communism!