2009
Ada E. Yonath – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented fourroom apartment with two additional families and their children. My memories from my childhood are centered on my father’s medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me. The hard conditions didn’t dampen my…
moreEl premio Nobel de literatura 2009 – Nota de prensa
Press release
Spanish Secretario permanente Nota de prensa 8 de octubre del 2009 El premio Nobel de literatura 2009 Herta Müller El premio Nobel de literatura 2009 ha sido otorgado a la escritora alemana Herta Müller ”que con la concentración de la poesía y la objetividad de la prosa dibuja los paisajes del desamparo”.
moreHerta Müller – Biographical
Biographical
Herta Müller was born in 1953 in Nitzkydorf, a German-speaking village in the Banat, a region that had passed from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Romania in the wake of the First World War. During the Second World War, Romania had allied with the National-Socialist German Reich, and like many of the Romanian-Germans, Herta Müller’s father…
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