Herta Mueller


Nobel Prizes: the politics of language and literature

Who is Herta Müller, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature? English-speaking audiences are baffled, because, surprise surprise, not of all the best literature is in English. Binoy Kampmark provides some answers.

Guy Rundle: Rundle’s Friday Book Review: The Land of Green Plums

Big Les Murray has been dudded again after the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Romanian-born German language poet Herta Mueller, writes Guy Rundle.