Herta Müller – Nobel Sarira Bidaia

Today I received a PDF of an article by my father published in Basque magazine Argia and which, more importantly, ran as its COVER STORY.  It’s a piece about the Romanian-German Nobel Prize (2009) winning author, Herta Müller, providing coverage of her life and her voice, a uniquely strident one that has oft been lost to the ears of her native Romania and which only found a real home after her departure to Germany in the late 80s.

With it being 2 decades since the fall of Communism in Romania and the start and end of one of the bloodiest revolutions of the period surrounding the fall of the Iron Curtain, it is timely that such an award has been given to her as a voice for many a lost and tortured generation in a country where the stranglehold of the old Communist networks remains in full force.

A lot of discussion has been appearing online of late about the post-communist era generations and their grasp of what actually happened pre-1989.  Let’s hope that Müller’s award helps shine more light on the Romanian revolution of ’89 and helps bring an antidote to the revisionists in Eastern Europe.

Alas I don’t read Basque but I am sure I will get a copy of the same article pre-translation and who knows, might even spread a little more light here.  To read the FULL piece online visit the Argia website and read Herta Müller Nobel Sarira bidaia.  otherwise to find out more about the lady herself, read the Anthology of Romanian Woman – Blouse Romaine, or visit Wikipedia.