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2009 Nobel Prize in Literature and Man Booker Prize for Fiction Announced

October 9th, 2009 Molly

Herta Müller is the new recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.  A Romanian-born German novelist, Müller’s works depict the dispossessed, in particular her life under dictatorship in her Romanian homeland.

Find titles by Müller at the library, including:

• The Appointment:  A Novel
• Nadirs (Niederungen) - short stories
• Traveling on One Leg
• The Land of Green Plums: A Novel
• The Passport

And Hilary Mantel wins the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall, her fictionalized account of Thomas Cromwell, clerk and later successor to Cardinal Wolsey during the reign of Henry VIII.

Other titles by Mantel available at the library include:

• Beyond Black
• Giving Up the Ghost:  A Memoir
• Fludd
• Vacant Possession
• The Giant, O’Brien:  A Novel
• Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

Details about the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2009 Shortlist can be found on the official site.

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