The Swedish Academy says in its motivation for the award that the Laureate “…with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”.
Herta Müller was born in Romania in 1953 and migrated to The Federal Republic of Germany in 1987. She is currently residing in Berlin. A recurring theme in her works is life in communist Romania.
For more information see the website of the Swedish Academy http://www.svenskaakademien.se/index_eng.html