The Nobel organization has posted the full text of literature laureate Herta Mueller’s acceptance speech, delivered yesterday in Stockholm (translated by Philip Boehm). “I wish I could utter a sentence for all those whom dictatorships deprive of dignity every day, up to and including the present,” Mueller said in her closing. One excerpt, about how the Romanian dictatorship motivated to her write when speaking was not sufficient: “Still, what can’t be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. The mouth is skipped over. I talked a great deal during […]
