Lector Wolfgang Matz holds up books "Atemschaukel" by Literature Nobel Prize winner German Herta Mueller in Munich's publishing company Hanser October 8, 2009. Mueller, a Romanian-born writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday. Reuters Pictures 2 months ago

Lector Wolfgang Matz holds up books "Atemschaukel" by Literature Nobel Prize winner German Herta Mueller in Munich's publishing company Hanser October 8, 2009. Mueller, a Romanian-born writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday.

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  1. Romanian-born German author and 2009 Nobel Literature Prize winner Herta Mueller (R) holds a news conference at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm December 8, 2009. The Nobel laureates will receive their Nobel Prizes during a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on December 10.
  2. WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 03: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (2L) sits with journalists, including New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman (2R), during the closing session of the administration's Jobs and Economic Growth Forum in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building December 3, 2009 in Washington, DC. The White House is billing the forum as an opportunity for Obama and his economic team to hear from CEOs, small business owners, labor leaders and nonprofit heads about economic policy.
  3. CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - NOVEMBER 25: (SOUTH AFRICA, UAE, Rebekah Robertson looks at the photographs of four SA Nobel Prize winners and the apartheid era at the Iziko Art Gallery on November 25, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. The photographic exhibition is to honour the South African Nobel prize winners. The photographs used in the exhibition were researched by George Hallett, whose work also features in the exhibition.
  4. BERKELEY, CA - OCTOBER 12: University of California, Berkeley professor Oliver Williamson smiles during a news conference at UC Berkeley October 12, 2009 in Berkeley, California. American Oliver Williamson shared the Nobel Prize in economics with Elinor Ostrom for their analysis of economic governance.
  5. BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller looks on during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,' the Swedish Academy said.

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