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Following the announcement, Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, told senior editor Simon Frantz why Herta Müller's uniqueness comes from the double experience of being part of a minority language while being under an oppressed society.

Only a handful of her books have been translated into English, and most of those appear to be semi-autobiographical novels about erudite young women of German ancestry who grew up in, and struggled against, the now-fallen Communist regime in late-20th-century Romania.

As a now instant-star, she may see her readership increases and her books may be finally translated reaching a wider public.

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