Each newsletter we flag up something which lets you complete a Simple Act – this month we're talking ‘Books about Exile’ - and a book by none other than this year's Nobel Prize winner!
No, not Barack Obama, but Herta Müller who was last week awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. We’ve highlighted one of her earliest novels, ‘Traveling on One Leg’, which describes leaving one country called home and arriving in another. Müller confronts her readers with the alien world of the Ceausescu regime, but also with the alienation in her own life.
Müller was born in the Romanian Banat in western Romania. A member of Romania's ethnic German minority, Müller knew persecution under the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and eventually in 1987 she fled to Germany with her husband.
