Horses in High Heels

Win It And They Will Come

People grow mainstream when they win awards. The Nobel Prize, especially, has a knack for pulling smart and talented people out of their insular cubbyholes and showing them off to a newly interested public. Herta Müller is a prime example of this. Before she won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, Müller was a semi-well-known German author, revered by her peers and critics but mostly ignored by American readers. That all changed on October 7th.

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