2010 · Q19
Consider the following paragraph and identify the person referred to in it :
A Nobel Laureate in Literature, she is a member of Romania’s ethnic German minority who was prosecuted for her critical depictions of life ‘behind the Iron Curtain’. She made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories entitled ‘Niederungen’, which depicted the harsh life in a small, German- speaking village in Romania. This book was censored by the Communist Government
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- ADoris Lessing
- BGunter Grass
- CHerta Mueller
- DImre Kertesz
Explanation
The 2009 Nobel Literature laureate from Romania's German minority is Herta Mueller.