The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller

WNNER: British Association for Eastern European and Slavonic Studies' George Blazyca Prize for 2025 An in-depth investigation of the Romanian secret police's file on Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, re-creating a "file story" of her surveillance. "Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the