Romanian-born German novelist, essayist and poet Herta Mller has been named winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, praised by the judgesfor depicting the “landscape of the dispossessed 1” Romanian-born German novelist, essayist and poet Herta Mller has been named winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, praised by the judges for describing the “landscape of the dispossessed 1 ”