Nobel Prize; It’s Not an American
Hopes that Joyce Carol Oates or Philip Roth might win the Nobel Prize for Literature were dashed today, when the prize went to Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller.
The LA Times gives background on her career.
Three of her books are still in print in English in the US (although wholesalers are showing little or no inventory).
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World Cat; 222 libraries own
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World Cat; 228 libraries own
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Reviewed in the NYT BR, 12/1/96 — World Cat; 591 libraries own
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Two other titles by Müller in English translation are no longer in print, but available in libraries:
The Passport, Serpent’s Tail, 1989 – World Cat; 103 libraries own
The Appointment, Metropolitan Books/Picador, New York/London 2001 — Reviewed in the NYT BR, 10/21/01 — World Cat; 460 libraries own
October 8th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I think we actually owned one of her titles, but we weeded it because it never went out. Hmmm. There are reserve lists on titles held by nearby libraries. A recent novel on Romania which is more widely available is the luminous TRAIN TO TRIESTE by Domnica Radulescu.