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By Brian Kennedy, PDS Bibliographer
Upon being selected for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, Laureate Herta Müller (as is required by the Nobel Foundation statutes) delivered a lecture before the Swedish Academy “on a subject relevant to the work for which the prize has been awarded.” Since Müller had been chosen as a writer “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the language of the dispossessed,” it was only fitting that she speak about her own efforts, confronted by the absurdities of an authoritarian system, to cultivate and maintain her sanity and dignity.
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