With the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, Müller depicts the language of the dispossessed -Jury of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Appropriately on the side of underdogs from Ceausescu's dystopia to Ukrainian labour camps ... so opening the eyes of non-German readers to new worlds. And that, from Beowulf to Müller, is a noble as well as a Nobel function of literature -
The Times Especially now, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's a beautiful signal that such high quality literature and this life experience are being honoured -
Angela Merkel [Muller's] dark, closely observed and sometimes violent work often explores exile and the grim quotidian realities of life under Ceausescu... Her sensibility is often bleak, but the detail in her fiction can whip it alive -
New York Times Müller has an eye for the surreal detail of a police state and has made it into strong, muscular literature -
The Times
