Thursday, October 27, 2011

PAST: LITERARY: An Evening with Nobel Prize Laureate Herta Müller at the Library of Congress TUES, May 15th at 6:30pm, Free, RSVP Requested

An Evening with Nobel Prize Laureate Herta Müller
at the Library of Congress - presented by Goethe-Institut
Tuesday, May 15th
6:30pm
Free
RSVP to roca@loc.gov or 202-289-1200

Hailed by the Nobel Prize Committee for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose". Discussion with Herta Müller follows the reading, moderated by Peter C. Pfeiffer, Chair, Department of German, Georgetown University. 

Born in Niþchidorf, Romania (German-speaking Romania) in 1953, Herta Müller endured house searches, the censorship of her novel Nadirs, and countless interrogations by the Ceausescu regime until she emigrated in 1987, settling in Germany. Since the early 1990s and the translation of her works into more than 20 languages, Herta Müller is among the important authors of international literature.
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Metro: Capitol South

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