The house in Nitchidorf village where Mueller lived. Photos: AFP; Corbis; Getty Images; Eamonn McCabe/The Guardian
The house in Nitchidorf village where Mueller lived. Photos: AFP; Corbis; Getty Images; Eamonn McCabe/The Guardian
Germans living in Romania give the Nazi salute aboard a German ship as they travel outside the three mile limit to vote during 1938's Austria Plebiscite.
Germans living in Romania give the Nazi salute aboard a German ship as they travel outside the three mile limit to vote during 1938's Austria Plebiscite.
The fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989.
The fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989.
A Romanian celebrates the end of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship.
A Romanian celebrates the end of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship.

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Made to be broken

Nobel prize winner Herta Mueller, who has labelled fellow laureate Mo Yan's award a 'catastrophe', tells Maya Jaggi that life under a communist regime drove her 'mad'

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Oliver Chou
Oliver Chou

Updated: 11:27pm, 15 Dec, 2012

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The house in Nitchidorf village where Mueller lived. Photos: AFP; Corbis; Getty Images; Eamonn McCabe/The Guardian
The house in Nitchidorf village where Mueller lived. Photos: AFP; Corbis; Getty Images; Eamonn McCabe/The Guardian
Germans living in Romania give the Nazi salute aboard a German ship as they travel outside the three mile limit to vote during 1938's Austria Plebiscite.
Germans living in Romania give the Nazi salute aboard a German ship as they travel outside the three mile limit to vote during 1938's Austria Plebiscite.
The fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989.
The fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989.
A Romanian celebrates the end of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship.
A Romanian celebrates the end of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship.
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