Herta Müller dodged Romanian secret police by proofreading in forest
Nobel laureate Herta Müller met her proofreader in the woods to escape the attentions of Romania's notorious Securitate, she tells book fair audience
Herta Müller, who won the Nobel prize for literature last autumn, was forced to edit her books in a forest to avoid the Romanian secret police, she told an audience at a German book fair this weekend.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 22 March, 2010
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