Consider the following paragraph and identify the person referred to in it. A Nobel Laureate in Literature, she is a member of Romania's ethnic German minority who was prosecuted for her critical depictions of life 'Behind the Iron Curtain'. She made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories entitled Niederungen which depicted the harsh life in a small, German- speaking village in Romania. This book was censored by the Communist Government.

The paragraph describes Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. As a member of Romania's ethnic German minority, she faced persecution by the Securitate and the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu for her critical depictions of life 'Behind the Iron Curtain'. Her literary debut occurred in 1982 with the collection of short stories titled 'Niederungen' (translated as 'Nadirs'), which portrayed the harsh, oppressive realities of life in a small German-speaking village in Romania. This work was notably censored by the Romanian Communist government before being published in its uncensored form in West Berlin two years later. Her writing is celebrated for charting the hardships and humiliations of the dispossessed under totalitarian rule.