The judges remained “Eurocentric” after all, picking the Romanian-born German novelist. They couldn’t resist her writing about the “landscape of the dispossessed” through “the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose.”
Muller had jumped up in UK betting in recent days, driving speculation of a leak from the Swedish Academy. Her Impac winner The Land of the Green Plums looks to be available in the US from Northwestern University Press; 2002’s The Appointment looks available from Picador.
Guardian