The Nobel prize-winner’s most recent novel to be published in English translation is a book of details. From the opening image – ‘The ant is carrying a dead fly three times i
THE MAN INSIDE HIS OWN HEAD A shadow follows a woman, the woman is small and crooked, the shadow keeps its distance. The woman walks across the grass and sits on a bench outside th
The workshop Lyn Marven will examine the challenges of translating Herta Müller’s short prose and collages, starting in the morning with a discussion of existing translations
2017 marks 30 years since Herta Müller fled Romania, yet her work on the damaging effects of exploitative regimes and the dehumanisation of man by man sadly remains as relevant
See the Nobel Prize Winner in her first London appearance. Join the German-Romanian author ‘who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscap
For decades in Eastern Europe besides the common repressive regimes there was a visible, shared weariness of repression and paternalism due to dictatorship. And there was also a sh
